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6nf on Jan 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: New superconductor microprocessor yields a substan...

Since the one-way speed is impossible to measure can we just define it to be half of the two-way speed? There's no way to tell if that's correct or not but it makes no difference in any measurements you could make. So maybe for convenience we can just choose the one-way speed to be half the two way speed to simplify the calculations.

triclops200 on Jan 14, 2021 [–]

That's exactly what's done most of the time, but it should be noted that it's convention and assumption.

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