You appear to be making post-hoc arguments. The meter was defined using the speed of light in a vacuum (c) because it is a standard that is based on the fact that c doesn't change.
It doesn't matter what it USED to be defined as, or it's origin, it is what it is today. Even if you were to change it back my theory would still be correct and Einstein's wrong. The definition is what helped me along to see how it really works, which allowed me to see Einstein's mistakes.
Are you suggesting a variable speed of light? If so, you should know that every experiment conducted to disprove SR and GR has failed.
No I am NOT suggesting a variable speed of light, I am saying that light speed is constant (as defined), but that MEASUREMENTS of the speed of light will be taken differently depending on the frame one takes those measurements in.
Time dilation and length (Lorentz) contraction are real effects.
Time dilation and length contraction are BS! Length contraction has never been proven to be a real effect. Length contraction is more a hindrance to SR than anything the way I see it. Length contraction only applies to one axis, say the x axis, while the y and z axis are not length contracted. That creates massive problems and ultimately internal innconsistancy in SR.
It still takes the same time for light to travel the meter in the other frames because the meter is shorter when observed from an independent FoR.
You better learn to understand what the definition of a meter is and how you would go about establishing the length of a meter in a particular frame using light and clocks. You obviously have no real understanding of which you speak. You are simply parroting what you've been brainwashed with.
Please expand on your hypothesis. If you were driving a car at 0.99*c and turned on the headlights, what would you see? Would photons be traveling at 0.01*c?
The light would be traveling at c, and you would be traveling at .99c, so from the start point, 1 second later the light would be 299,792,458 meters away from the start point, and you would be 299,792,458*.99=296,794,533.42 meters away from the start point. The light would be 2,997,924.58 meters ahead of you after 1 second. Your measure of the speed of light would therefor be 2,997,924.58 m/s, because the light started at the same point you did, and after 1 second it was 2,997,924.58 meters away from you. That is, if you consider your frame to be at a zero velocity to take measurements from (which clearly isn't in your question, because you stated the car was driving .99 c), which is another of Einstein's blunders. I can tell you the velocity of the frame, Einstein can not. He has no way of knowing the velocity of a frame in space, so he makes up his BS second postulate and claims all frames will measure the speed of light to be the same. That is simply an impossibility according to the definition of the meter.