History of the Speed of Lightc光的速度史丙.pptVIP

History of the Speed of Light ( c ) Introduction The speed of light is a very important fundamental constant known with great precision today due to the contribution of many scientists. Up until the late 1600s, light was thought to propagate instantaneously through the ether, which was the hypothetical massless medium distributed throughout the universe. Galileo was one of the first to question the infinite velocity of light, and his efforts began what was to become a long list of many more experiments, each improving the accuracy of c. Is the Speed of Light Infinite? Galileo’s Simplicio,