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<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Everyone knows we are moving, our continents are drifting, our earth is spinning, the earth is orbiting the sun, the sun is orbiting the Milky Way, the Milky Way is moving in our local galactic cluster, and our galactic cluster is moving compared to the cosmic background radiation. </font></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">By searching the weird and wonderful internet we can find answers for the speed of light and varying speeds in which we are moving in relation to all the above rest frames. </font></p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Thought experiment: <span> </span>if we measure the speed of light, in direction A, B and C, knowing we are flying through space at massive speed (100’s km/s) and knowing the speed of light is constant, should not the measurements be dramatically different? <span> </span>In fact couldn’t we infer our exact speed and direction through space just by measuring the speed at which light takes to travel the same distance in 3 directions?</font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#808080">-------------- </font></p><p align="center"><font size="1" color="#808080"><em>Let me start out with the standard disclaimer ... I am an idiot, I know almost nothing, I haven’t taken calculus, I don’t work for NASA, and I am one-quarter Bulgarian sheep dog. With that out of the way, I have several stupid questions... </em></font></p><p align="center"><font size="1" color="#808080"><em>*** A few months blogging can save a few hours in research ***</em></font></p> </div>