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Article #1396Re: Interpreting the Michelson-Morley experiment in 1887
From: PD
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:04
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:04
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On Feb 9, 7:44Ā pm, NoEinstein <noeinst...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > On Feb 8, 5:39Ā pm, doug <x...@xx.com> wrote: > > > > > NoEinstein wrote: > > > On Feb 6, 6:15 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Dear Pentcho V.: Ā Stephen Hawking writes and speaks in an edifying > > > manner (even via machine). Ā But he himself admits to being poor at > > > visualizing moving spatial systems "relative" to one another. > > > Einstein liked to "edify", too. Ā He did so by explaining time and > > > motion examples in such minute and boring detail, that he insulted > > > most engineers and architects (like myself) who have NO problem > > > visualizing 3-D anything! > > > > The first huge blunder Einstein made was to insist that: āAll > > > 'observers' of events should record the same data." > > > You should actually read some history and some physics. This > > is not what was said. Ā In fact, the whole point is that this > > is not true. > > > Ā Einstein DECLARED> the later, NOT Mother Nature! Ā Any surveyor used to working with > > > spatial problems has little problem calculating when events occur. > > > But because having things be seen⦠āthe sameā, was a SIMPLIFICATION of > > > problems already way over the heads of non engineers and architects, > > > dumb scientists just embraced that notion⦠ Now, we have the dregs of > > > mentality holding back World Progressāājust to protect their GD egos, > > > and continue the space-time nonsense! > > > > Pentcho is certainly more right than wrong. Ā In a āNutshellā *** He > > > agrees that Albert Einstein is WRONG. *** Ā The latter is more than > > > those in academia can rise to understand. Ā Isnāt it time to quit > > > playing nice, and to call āan ace and ace and a spade a spadeā? Ā Those > > > who defend Einstein are to be cursed and damned!! Ā āā NoEinstein āā > > > Except that you have shown nothing wrong with Einstein's work. > > Learn some physics. > > > >>On Feb 6, 1:58 am, PD <TheDraperFam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>>On Feb 5, 7:39 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >>>>On Feb 5, 3:16 pm, PD <TheDraperFam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>>>>On Feb 5, 2:05 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >>>>>>For the sake of argument, let us assume that the Michelson-Morley > > >>>>>>experiment is consistent with both the hypothesis that the speed of > > >>>>>>light is independent of the speed of the light source and the > > >>>>>>hypothesis that the speed of light does depend on the speed of the > > >>>>>>light source (that is, we ignore the fact that the former consistency > > >>>>>>was achieved by introducing ad hoc auxiliary hypotheses, starting with > > >>>>>>FitzGerald's length contraction). Even this quite liberal assumption > > >>>>>>does not make Einsteiniana's teaching less fraudulent: > > > >>>>>>http://physics.suite101.com/article.cfm/einsteins_special_relativity > > >>>>>>Paul A. Heckert: "Rather than trying to understand why the Michelson- > > >>>>>>Morley experiment didn't work, Einstein effectively took the result as > > >>>>>>his starting point. He made the basic assumption that the speed of > > >>>>>>light is a fundamental constant in the universe and that all observers > > >>>>>>in any reference frame that is not accelerating will measure the same > > >>>>>>value for the speed of light. There is however historical controversy > > >>>>>>as to how much Einstein was actually influenced by the Michelson- > > >>>>>>Morley experiment. He might have made this assumption, even if the > > >>>>>>experiment had not been performed. In either case, his assumption that > > >>>>>>any observer moving at any constant velocity will measure the same > > >>>>>>value for the speed of light led to special relativity. Basically if > > >>>>>>the speed of light can't change for different observers moving at > > >>>>>>different speeds, some other things, such as length and time, must > > >>>>>>change. Einstein found a number of surprising consequences to this > > >>>>>>assumption." > > > >>>>>I don't know what you find fraudulent. > > > >>>>Then see how Stephen Hawking uses the Michelson-Morley experiment in > > >>>>his attempt to disprove the fact that the speed of light "varies with > > >>>>position" (Einstein's words) in a gravitational field: > > > >>>>http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/text/extplaydice.htm > > >>>>Stephen Hawking: "Interestingly enough, Laplace himself wrote a paper > > >>>>in 1799 on how some stars could have a gravitational field so strong > > >>>>that light could not escape, but would be dragged back onto the star. > > >>>>He even calculated that a star of the same density as the Sun, but two > > >>>>hundred and fifty times the size, would have this property. But > > >>>>although Laplace may not have realised it, the same idea had been put > > >>>>forward 16 years earlier by a Cambridge man, John Mitchell, in a paper > > >>>>in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Both Mitchell > > >>>>and Laplace thought of light as consisting of particles, rather like > > >>>>cannon balls, that could be slowed down by gravity, and made to fall > > >>>>back on the star. But a famous experiment, carried out by two > > >>>>Americans, Michelson and Morley in 1887, showed that light always > > >>>>travelled at a speed of one hundred and eighty six thousand miles a > > >>>>second, no matter where it came from. How then could gravity slow down > > >>>>light, and make it fall back." > > > >>>>You find nothing fraudulent again? > > > >>>No. > > > >>http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/a_brief_history_of_rela... > > >>Stephen Hawking: "So if you were traveling in the same direction as > > >>the light, you would expect that its speed would appear to be lower, > > >>and if you were traveling in the opposite direction to the light, that > > >>its speed would appear to be higher. Yet a series of experiments > > >>failed to find any evidence for differences in speed due to motion > > >>through the ether. The most careful and accurate of these experiments > > >>was carried out by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at the Case > > >>Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1887......It was as if light always > > >>traveled at the same speed relative to you, no matter how you were > > >>moving." > > > >>No fraud again? Is Stephen Hawking one of the "later writers" referred > > >>to in the quotation below: > > > >>http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf > > >>John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as > > >>evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost > > >>universally use it as support for the light postulate of special > > >>relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE > > >>WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT > > >>POSTULATE." > > > >>Pentcho Valev > > >>pva...@yahoo.com- Hide quoted text - > > > >>- Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Folks: Doug is a persona non grata to science, and to me in > particular. Ā :-}~ - - - ! Ā NE How about this: Doug is a persona non grata to you in particular, and science doesn't give a damn what you think.
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