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Galileo's Experiment to measure the speed of light

The results of this experiment were inconclusive because the reaction times of the assistants would be so much greater than the actual time it would take light to travel the distance. Galileo therefore concluded that "if light is not instantaneous, it is extraordinarily rapid".

Created 8/14/2009