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Unfortunately, John Stachel's conciliere called Jean Eisenstaedt went
well beyond his Godfather in advertising Newton's emission theory of
light:

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."

So, although Conciliere Jean Eisenstaedt will try to convince the
Bosses that from now on he will just repeat "the Schwarzschild
solution" and will never again hint at the falsehood of Einstein's
1905 light postulate, he still may be severely punished at the Beyond
Einstein conference:

http://www.beyond-einstein-2008.de/
Jean Eisenstaedt (Paris): "a survey of interpretations of the
Schwarzschild solution. The Schwarzschild solution has been of
particular importance for the interpretation of general relativity. I
will review the interpretation of the Schwarzschild solution from 1915
to the 1960's, from the, "neo-Newtonian" interpretation to the premise
of the nowadays accepted one. The importance of cosmology--and the work
of particular cosmologists--will be stressed."

Pentcho Valev
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