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Re: WHY ALBERT EINSTEIN IS GREATER THAN JOHN MICHELL

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:15
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On Mar 27, 10:11 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/16830151.html
> Smithsonian wisdom: "Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity
> predicted that the gravity of an extremely dense body could bend a ray
> of light so severely that it could not escape."
>
> Giants of Science Stephen Hawking and Clifford Will explain to
> Einstein zombie world why John Michell was unable to discover what
> Albert Einstein has discovered. John Michell did not know the
> Michelson-Morley experiment and special relativity:
>
> http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html
> Stephen Hawking: "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."
>
> http://admin.wadsworth.com/resource_uploads/static_resources/0534493394/4891/Ch01-Essay.pdf
> Clifford Will: "The first glimmerings of the black hole idea date to
> the 18th century, in the writings of a British amateur astronomer, the
> Reverend John Michell. Reasoning on the basis of the corpuscular
> theory that light would be attracted by gravity, he noted that the
> speed of light emitted from the surface of a massive body would be
> reduced by the time the light was very far from the source. (Michell
> of course did not know special relativity.)"
>
> Dwarfs of Science John Norton and Jean Eisenstaedt seem to disagree
> with Giants of Science Stephen Hawking and Clifford Will but who
> cares:
>
> 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."
>
> http://ustl1.univ-lille1.fr/culture/publication/lna/detail/lna40/pgs/4_5.pdf
> Jean Eisenstaedt: "Il n'y a alors aucune raison theorique a ce que la
> vitesse de la lumiere ne depende pas de la vitesse de sa source ainsi
> que de celle de l'observateur terrestre ; plus clairement encore, il
> n'y a pas de raison, dans le cadre de la logique des Principia de
> Newton, pour que la lumiere se comporte autrement - quant a sa
> trajectoire - qu'une particule materielle. Il n'y a pas non plus de
> raison pour que la lumiere ne soit pas sensible a la gravitation.
> Bref, pourquoi ne pas appliquer a la lumiere toute la theorie
> newtonienne ? C'est en fait ce que font plusieurs astronomes,
> opticiens, philosophes de la nature a la fin du XVIIIeme siecle. Les
> resultats sont etonnants... et aujourd'hui nouveaux."
>
> Translation from French: "Therefore there is no theoretical reason why
> the speed of light should not depend on the speed of the source and
> the speed of the terrestrial observer as well; even more clearly,
> there is no reason, in the framework of the logic of Newton's
> Principia, why light should behave, as far as its trajectory is
> concerned, differently from a material particle. Neither is there any
> reason why light should not be sensible to gravitation. Briefly, why
> don't we apply the whole Newtonian theory to light? In fact, that is
> what many astronomers, opticians, philosophers of nature did by the
> end of 18th century. The results are surprising....and new nowadays."

The purpose of Einsteiniana is not just to advance an inconsistent
theory; rather, Einsteinians teach the mixture of truth and falsehood
so as to destroy IRREVERSIBLY human rationality in Einstein zombie
world. So we learn that 19th century scientists, unlike John Michell,
were very wrong because they "thought of light as a wave in the ether
- it was assumed to have no mass, and therefore to be immune to
gravity". Then Albert the Saviour came and restored Michell's truth:

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13556-10-impossibilities-conquered-by-science.html
NEW SCIENTIST: "People who think of black holes as a futuristic or
modern idea may be surprised to learn that the basic concept was first
mooted in 1783, in a letter to the Royal Society penned by the
geologist John Michell. He argued that if a star were massive enough,
"a body falling from an infinite height towards it would have acquired
at its surface greater velocity than that of light... all light
emitted from such a body would be made to return towards it by its own
proper gravity." However, throughout the 19th century the idea was
rejected as outright ridiculous. This was because physicists thought
of light as a wave in the ether - it was assumed to have no mass, and
therefore to be immune to gravity. It was not until Einstein published
his theory of general relativity in 1915 that this view had to be
seriously revised. One of the key predictions of Einstein's theory was
that light rays would indeed be deflected by gravity. Arthur
Eddington's measurements of star positions during a solar eclipse
showed that their light rays were deflected by the Sun's gravity -
though actually the effect was too small for Eddington's instruments
to reliably observe, and it was not properly confirmed until later
on."

Again, Einsteinians hint at Eddington's dishonesty but fortunately
Eddington's younger brothers in Einstein criminal cult proved honest
and so Divine Albert's Divine Theory is "properly confirmed" forever.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com
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