Brad, did you know that we live just barely far enough apart that we could do the

Foucafizzo experiment to determine the speed of light?

Okay, the second time you said that out loud, I understood who you were talking about.

Ah.

I'm not trying to impugn your pronunciation of French surnames.

I am a perfect pronunciator of names as well established.

Now I have a better idea of who and what you're talking about, but I've never heard of that experiment.

What is that?

So at some point in the indeterminate past, which I probably knew at one point or another, these two people independently developed similar experiments to determine the speed of light by taking a mechanism

that had mirrors and spinning discs and prisms and stuff in it, like a brass, age of

brass kind of like, like age of wonders, whatever, post-renaissance pre-industrial revolution probably i don't know mechanism that if you

put far enough away from a source of light you could bounce the light off of the mirrored prism

thing at night time and have it reflect back and use that to they both independently use that

to pretty accurately given the scales involved,

calculate the speed of light in the 17 or 1800s, maybe.

I don't know.

Okay.

Welcome to Will's science hour.

Will Spurrius Science Hour.

I got to sign up for your class at the Academy of Science.

Yeah.

Hey, this might be science.

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