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What is the the airspeed velocity of an unladen tree swallow compared to European species?
Swift!What is the the airspeed velocity of an unladen tree swallow compared to European species?
Let's see. 297,000 Kms/second, 0.5 m = not very long at all.View attachment 389348
I don't know why I found this so fascinating but my gaze was stuck on the shadows of the leaves from the side of the tree, like a spotlight of a dancer, they were moving in the wind with just the tiniest delay for the shadows (technically you can do the math if you want, divide the speed of light with the distance between the tree and the wall but it's so small that it would be imperceptible to the human brain).
Indeed, the first experiments of advance physics shows true human ingenuity with limited resources, like Rømer's Determination of The Speed of LightLet's see. 297,000 Kms/second, 0.5 m = not very long at all.
Have to admire Michelson and Morley ...
Actually c = 299,792 km/s, not 297k Kms/s, as I mistakenly quoted from memory upthread.Indeed, the first experiments of advance physics shows true human ingenuity with limited resources, like Rømer's Determination of The Speed of Light