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The light sphere is a reality, it is not going away. The radius of the light sphere is 299,792,458 meters at t=1 in your frame. In the frame of the car, how far ahead of the car is the light when the light hits you?

I want an answer to my question. Maybe you'd like to take a shot at it?

I'll wait.

You are standing on the road 299,792,458 meters from the start line. What meter marker is the car at when the light hits you?

Guy, I expect an answer to this question.

What do you mean the diagram doesn't represent that?? Didn't you see the color coding chart? Above that it says the source remains at the center of the cube. What do you not understand about that? So you did a test and the light reached the inner surface of the sphere at the same exact time...

Do you know the difference between a closing speed and a velocity? So we painted a line on the road. The car is approaching the line at a constant rate. Just as the car comes in contact with the line the headlights are activated. The road is marked like a ruler at every meter. You are...

Let me guess, Einstein says it takes 1 second round trip time for light to travel the 1 light second total round trip distance? But how could that be, seeing how the real round trip time is 1.689999 seconds, which means light traveled a round trip distance in space 506,648,954 meters in...

Maybe you are color blind? Do you not understand that the source (yellow dot) stays at the center of the cube at all times? The red dot is simply the origin of the light sphere, it is not the source! The light expands from the point of origin, regardless of if the source stays at that point or not!

So you are saying you first measure the distance and time, and then you do the math and arrive at the speed?

Those times are taken INSIDE THE BOX. What part of that don't you understand? The light was emitted and the timers on the receivers were started, and the timer stops when the light reached the timer. This is not one of Einstein's smoke and mirror tricks, this is a measurement of time of light...

So which comes first, knowing the time and length traveled and then knowing your speed, or knowing your speed and then knowing the time and length traveled? Oh, you better be extremely careful on this one.

Again, you are measuring the speed of light, not the speed of the lab, correct? Or do you wish to imply that you are taking into account the lab is in motion into your results?

If there is no absolute time then there is no absolute speed of light, as the length of the meter is defined by light travel time. Effectively what you are saying is that the radius of a light sphere grows at different rates, depending on what frame you are in. Is that what you think?

Yes, because you are measuring the speed of light, not the speed of the earth, moon, galaxy, or any other material object. Light travels independently of objects. Light travel time is distance, they are inseparable when speaking about the distance and time of light travel.

There is not a "point of view," there were measurements of the amount of time it took for light emitted from the source to reach each receiver. Obviously if there were an outside observer that was 2 light seconds from the point of origin of the light sphere, the measurements were already...

Imagine a point in space that is comprised of simply an infinite amount of clocks all at that point. We'll call that time t=0. At t=0 there was a massive explosion, and all the clocks instantly traveled away from the center point in every direction so as to form an expanding sphere of clocks...

What are your questions and rebuttals concerning this diagram? Let us stay with this diagram so we are on the same sheet of music. Your errors are numerous as I've explained in my responses to you, and you don't respond to my leading questions because of the very nature of the question you see...

So you agree that's a closing speed. Is that to say that you are acknowledging that at least one of us, maybe both of us have a velocity contributing to that closing speed? If so, in what frame would you say that velocity occurs? In other words, the closing speed is .99c. Let's just say that I...

It is not "traveling towards each other at .99c," that is a closing speed of .99c which you speak of. You have no clue which part of that .99c, if any, each of us posses as a velocity. A closing speed is not a velocity, it is simply the distance between us increasing or decreasing over time. Do...