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Quote: a physical law is wrong if it does not work in one place where it ought to
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empirical truth
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light
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[The moons of Jupiter] were studied very carefully by Roemer, who … Now they were ahead when Jupiter was particularly … would have been a very difficult thing to … wonderful theory if there were no other explanation. … just wrong. But the reason for this discrepancy … because of the time it takes light to … [This] furnished the first estimate of the speed … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: in 1656 Roemer measured the speed of light by measuring the discrepancies in the orbits of Jupiter's moons when Jupiter was close to earth and when it was far from earth
Topic: empirical truth (44 items)
Topic: light (37 items)