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  • Method to calculate the speed of light. Light is passed through a spinning cogwheel driven by running water, then reflected off a distant mirror and back through the spinning cogwheel. When the rate of running water (and thus the spinning of the cogwheel) is synchronized so that the returning pulses are eclipsed, c can be calculated.

    February 4, 2010