HOW EINSTEIN OUTDID NEWTON

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:55

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In 1907 Einstein discovered that the speed of light varies with the
gravitational potential, V, and in 1911 gave the respective equation:
c'=c(1+V/c^2). That was in fact Newton's emission theory of light: by
applying the equivalence principle, one can convert c'=c(1+V/c^2) into
c'=c+v, the antithesis of Einstein's 1905 false light postulate c'=c
(v is the speed of the light source relative to the observer). The
situation was humiliating and extremely dangerous so a few years later
Einstein took a silly but victorious step: he replaced c'=c(1+V/c^2)
with c'=c(1+2V/c^2) and so outdid Newton.

A small problem emerged in 1960 when Pound and Rebka experimentally
confirmed the validity of the gravitational redshift factor (1+V/c^2)
- a result consistent with c'=c(1+V/c^2) and inconsistent with c'=c
(1+2V/c^2). Nobody realized there was a problem: at that time
Einsteiniana was able to suppress the development of any problem.
Rather, the world was informed that the Pound-Rebka result was just
another glorious confirmation of Divine Albert's Divine Theory.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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