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W dniu 12.07.2024 o 11:55, J. J. Lodder pisze:
> Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-07-11 19:58:02 +0000, amirjf nin said:
>>
>>> Approximately 300,000 km/s with respect to what?
>>
>> Whenever the speec of something is measured it is measured with respect
>> to someting else. The report should make clear what is the reference that
>> is considered stationary. Usually it is the instruments used in the
>> measurement, and usually but not always they are at rest with restpect to
>> Earth surface at the place of the measurement.
> 
> You really need to have a look at what and how is actually measured,
> instead of elaborating your own ideas of measurement.
> 
> FYI, in the precision 'speed of light' measurements
> that preceded the abolition of the meter in 1983
> physicists measured the frequency of a standing wave.
> This is a proper measurement in a proper frame,
> yielding an obviously dimensionless number.
> (a world scalar of course, being the same in every proper frame.)
> It does not involve something going from somewhere.
> 
>> Sometimes numbers with units of speed are used for other purposes instead
>> of speed, for example in E = mc?, where c has units of speed. In those cases
>> the question need not be asked.
> 
> Standard error: speed does not -have- a unit.

Yeah - that's what The Shit is making to
the brains of its victims.