Ep 191: On Light, Part 1: Measuring Light Speed — How Do They Actually Do That?
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Harry and Rafe present the first part of a series on the the speed of light and special relativity.
In this episode, they discuss basic Galilean relativity and discuss how the speed of light was actually measured prior to the year 1700 using eclipses of the moons of Jupiter.
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