If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Equations relating speed and mass go back to Newton and beyond. But after I got geeky with an equation for ...

In my recent post about calculating the speed of light, I mentioned Ole Roemer's calculation in 1676. The basic idea uses the orbit of one of Jupiter's moons. The orbital period is constant, but there ...

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