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The paradoxes of Postscientism: only the ignorant, driven by their
healthy intuition, know that the Doppler effect is due to variation of
the seed of light in accordance with the equation c'=c+v given by
Newton's emission theory of light:

http://www.examiner.com/x-17078-Lafayette-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m8d18-Bending-Physics-colored-stars-and-Einsteins-face-of-God-------------Part-one-of-two
"Just like sound changes pitch as it travels toward and away from a
point, Einstein knew that light traveling toward you was seen as a
different color than traveling away, and THE MORE DRAMATIC THE SHIFT
IN COLOR THE FASTER IT TRAVELED."

Einsteiniana's teachers are fatally damaged by lifelong exercise of
doublethink so they sincerely believe that "if the observer were to
hurry towards the source of the light", the speed of light relative to
the observer would remain unchanged but the wavelength (which had been
determined by the light source before the observer started hurrying)
would change in accordance with the observer's movements:

http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-17.html#seventeen
George Orwell: "It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners
of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is
a vast system of mental cheating. In our society, those who have the
best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest
from seeing the world as it is. In general, the greater the
understanding, the greater the delusion ; the more intelligent, the
less sane."

http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-17.html#seventeen
George Orwell: "Doublethink means the power of holding two
contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both
of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories
must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with
reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself
that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it
would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to
be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and
hence of guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since
the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while
retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To
tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any
fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary
again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed,
to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take
account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably
necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to
exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is
tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this
knowledge ; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead
of the truth."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

On Aug 10 Pentcho Valev wrote:
> If the observer suddenly starts moving towards the light source, the
> frequency of light increases (Doppler effect). This has a SIMPLE
> IMPLICATION: the wavecrests are now bumping more frequently into the
> observer, that is, THE SPEED OF LIGHT RELATIVE TO THE OBSERVER HAS
> INCREASED. "But this is fatal for Divine Albert's Divine Theory" - say
> to themselves Einsteiniana's teachers and replace the SIMPLE
> IMPLICATION with an IDIOTIC ONE:
>
> http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/big_bang/index.html
> John Norton: "Here's a light wave and an observer. If the observer
> were to hurry towards the source of the light, the observer would now
> pass wavecrests more frequently than the resting observer. That would
> mean that moving observer would find the frequency of the light to
> have increased (AND CORRESPONDINGLY FOR THE WAVELENGTH - THE DISTANCE
> BETWEEN CRESTS - TO HAVE DECREASED)."
>
> Einsteiniana's teachers know quite well that the wavelength is
> determined by the light source and cannot depend on the movements of
> the observer. So Stephen Hawking has offered better camouflage: when
> the light source, not the observer, starts moving, the wavelength
> shift looks less idiotic:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168
> Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time", Chapter 3:
> "In the 1920s, when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars
> in other galaxies, they found something most peculiar: there were the
> same characteristic sets of missing colors as for stars in our own
> galaxy, but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward
> the red end of the spectrum. To understand the implications of this,
> we must first understand the Doppler effect. As we have seen, visible
> light consists of fluctuations, or waves, in the electromagnetic
> field. The wavelength (or distance from one wave crest to the next) of
> light is extremely small, ranging from four to seven ten-millionths of
> a meter. The different wavelengths of light are what the human eye
> sees as different colors, with the longest wavelengths appearing at
> the red end of the spectrum and the shortest wavelengths at the blue
> end. Now imagine a source of light at a constant distance from us,
> such as a star, emitting waves of light at a constant wavelength.
> Obviously the wavelength of the waves we receive will be the same as
> the wavelength at which they are emitted (the gravitational field of
> the galaxy will not be large enough to have a significant effect).
> Suppose now that the source starts moving toward us. When the source
> emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us, so the distance
> between wave crests will be smaller than when the star was stationary.
> This means that the wavelength of the waves we receive is shorter than
> when the star was stationary. Correspondingly, if the source is moving
> away from us, the wavelength of the waves we receive will be longer.
> In the case of light, therefore, means that stars moving away from us
> will have their spectra shifted toward the red end of the spectrum
> (red-shifted) and those moving toward us will have their spectra blue-
> shifted."