Originally Posted by LinearAq
The universe is supposed to be only 6000 years old but we can see galaxies that are more than a billion light years away.

http://publicliterature.org/pdf/relat10.pdf

is a pdf of Einstein's book, Relativity: The Special and General Theory

It may also be available through
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/einstein/index.htm

Where page 12 meets page 13 of the ebook, I find

Originally Posted by A.Einstein
After thinking the matter over for some time you then offer the following suggestion with which to test simultaneity. By measuring along the rails, the connecting line AB should be measured up and an observer placed at the mid-point M of the distance AB. This observer should be supplied with an arrangement (e.g. two mirrors inclined at 90^0) which allows him visually to observe both places A and B at the same time. If the observer perceives the two flashes of lightning at the same time, then they are simultaneous.

I am very pleased with this suggestion, but for all that I cannot regard the matter as quite settled, because I feel constrained to raise the following objection:
"Your definition would certainly be right, if only I knew that the light by means of which the observer at M perceives the lightning flashes travels along the length A arrow M with the same velocity as along the length B arrow M. But an examination of this supposition would only be possible if we already had at our disposal the means of measuring time. It would thus appear as though we were moving here in a logical circle."

When it suits Einstein, he maintains the speed of light cannot be measured!

He is arguing here against the possibility of simultaneous events. His double-talking arguments take time to sort out. In the end, his conclusion is that no two events can be simultaneous; that time cannot be measured consistently; neither can distance; yet somehow the speed of light can be measured. Speed is what? Distance over time!

I will further point out that any speed measurement involves starting and stopping (or reading at least) a clock simultaneously with the beginning and end of the event being timed! If you accept Einstein's argument that events cannot be simultaneous,logically you must conclude that events cannot be timed and speeds cannot be measured. The alternative is to be illogical about it.

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