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Radiation: Speed Of:
“The speed of light had been measured linearly in a tube-- this is the speed of light in any one direction from its source. But radiation is called radiation because it goes in all directions from its source unless reflectively beamed. When we double the linear dimensions of any object-- the surface of the symmetrically amplified system grows as the second power of the linear. Science had to choose the lower-case letter c to represent the speed of the radiation linearly, to arrive at the rate at which it grew in an omnidirectional spherical way-- the rate at which the surface of the omnidirectional radius increases as the second power of the radius-- or linear speed: c^2.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA, Sarasota, Florida, 7 Feb '71
