Re: WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO ALLOW THE SPEED OF LIGHT TO VARY

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From: JanPB
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:07

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On Jan 19, 7:49 am, PD <TheDraperFam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 1:35 am, Koobee Wublee <koobee.wub...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 18, 6:54 am, PD <TheDraperFam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Jan 18, 12:41 am, Koobee Wublee wrote:
> > > > Yes, this I do not dispute.  However, both SR and LET are merely
> > > > interpretations to the Lorentz transform.  <shrug>
>
> > > The physical basis is the two postulates, exactly as stated,
> > > regardless of the inversion that you apply at your whim. <shrug>.
>
> > Well, only the high priest of a religion would bring two ordinary
> > assumptions into something really divine.
>
> It's not divine. No one has ever said it's divine except those who
> equate relativity with a religion. It is quite ordinary as you note.
>
> > The ordinary assumptions
> > are more specifically
>
> > **  The principle of relativity
>
> > This very fundamental principle was already discovered by Galileo
> > about 400 years ago.  That would make it 300 years before Einstein the
> > nitwit, the plagiarist, and the liar.'
>
> Yes, the principle of relativity was discovered 300 years earlier.
> Note that Galileo was not able to do with it what Einstein was.
>
>
>
> > **  Constancy in the speed of light
>
> > Voigt had already radically proposed that to describe the null results
> > of the Aether-drift experiment.
>
> And Voigt was not able to do with it what Einstein was.
>
> I don't know where you get the idea that a revolution in physics
> cannot come from the synthesis of *already known* ideas and must start
> completely from scratch, with postulates that no one previously had
> dreamed of. The *bulk* of physics revolutions come from a leaping
> *synthesis* of ideas already established. Newton did the same. Bohr
> did the same. Da Vinci did the same. Galileo did the same. There is
> NOTHING wrong with that.

It's been quite obvious for some time that Koobee is not motivated by
anything science-related but is instead on a kind of personal vendetta
against Einstein. So he is obviously deaf to the truth. I leave it as
an exercise for the reader to figure out his motives.

--
Jan Bielawski

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