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The Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer was the first to measure the speed of light. (within 25 % of the actual value)

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The first successful measurement of the speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer in 1676. Rømer achieved this by observing the time discrepancy between the predicted and observed eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io as Earth approached and moved away from Jupiter.

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Who try to measure the speed of light?

Roemer was the first to measure the speed of light.


When did scientists attempt to measure the speed of light?

The first successful attempt to measure the speed of light was in 1676 by Danish astronomer Ole Rømer. He estimated the speed of light by observing the eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io.


Who is the scientist use the light year to measure the speed of light?

It doesn't work that way. The light-year is not used to measure the speed of light. It works the other way round: First, the speed of light is determined through other methods, then the distance called a light-year is calculated based on that measurements.


How would you measure the speed of light?

Light years


Does a megaphone measure light and speed?

No, a megaphone is a device used to amplify sound, particularly human speech. It does not measure light or speed.


How do you measure the speed of light?

by getting boners.


If you go faster than the speed of light does everything turn dark?

First of all, the conditions you suppose in the question aren't possible. You do not go faster than the speed of light. But to answer the question, I would remind you that one of the most impoortant foundations of the Theory of Relativity is that no matter how an observer is moving, and no matter where the light is coming from, every observer measure the same speed of light. So no matter how you were moving, light from the usual sources would pass by you at the speed of light. (That's the speed you would measure as the light sailed past you.)


Why it harder to measure the the speed of light than it is to measure the speed of sund?

Roughly speaking, light moves about a million times faster than sound in air.


Which is faster and why speed or light?

Light is faster because speed does not move. Speed is a measure of the rate of movement but, in itself, it does not move - at all!


How did the Greeks measure the speed of light?

I don't believe there was any serious attempt to measure the speed of light before Galileo. That was a couple of millennia after the golden age of the Greek philosopher 'scientists', who, I believe, assumed the transfer of light to be instantaneous, and the perception of distant events to be simultaneous with the event.


What did Olaus Roemer discover about light?

Olaus Roemer discovered the finite speed of light in the late 17th century. He observed that the time it took for light to travel from Jupiter to Earth varied as the distance between the two planets changed, leading him to calculate a rough estimate of the speed of light. This discovery laid the foundation for later, more precise measurements of the speed of light.


Why did early experimental attempts to measure the speed of light fail?

If you want to measure the speed of something, you first have to recall that speed is (distance traveled) divided by (time to travel the distance), and then you realize that you have to measure the distance it travels and the time it takes to travel that distance. If it happens to be the speed of light, then you immediately have a serious problem. The speed of light is so great that ... -- If you pick a distance that's easy to measure, then the time is impossibly short. For example, if you pick ten miles, then you have to accurately measure 0.00005368 of one second, which is pretty tough. -- If you pick a time that's easy to measure, then the distance is ridiculously long. For example, if you pick 0.1 second, then you have to accurately measure 18,628.2 miles, which is enormously tough. Both of these methods are theoretically and technically perfect, and completely impossible to actually use for the speed of light. You have to invent whole new clever ways to measure speed.