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Article #5840Re: WHY THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS CONSTANT
From: HW Henri Wilson
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:05
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:05
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:18:27 -0800 (PST), PD <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote: >On Jan 10, 2:35�pm, HW@....(Dr. Henri Wilson) wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:47:35 -0800 (PST), "Sue..." <suzysewns...@yahoo.com.au> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >On Jan 10, 9:58�am, Don Stockbauer <don.stockba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Jan 10, 5:28 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >> >http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001661/01/Minkowski.pdf >> >> > Harvey R. Brown and Oliver Pooley: "An examination of the status of >> >> > length contraction in the context of Einstein's 1905 treatment of SR >> >> > will illustrate the way in which principle theories fail to be >> >> > explanatory. Recall that in this derivation the first conclusion drawn >> >> > from the two fundamental postulates is the invariance of the speed of >> >> > light, that it has the same constant value in all inertial frames. >> >> > This gives the 'k-Lorentz transformations', the Lorentz >> >> > transformations up to a velocity dependent scale factor, k. What has, >> >> > in effect, been shown is that if the speed of light as measured with >> >> > respect to frame F0 is to be found to be the same value as when >> >> > measured with respect to the 'resting frame' F, then rods and clocks >> >> > at rest in F0 had better contract and dilate (with respect to frame F) >> >> > in the coordinated way that is encoded in the k-Lorentz >> >> > transformations. One then appeals to the relativity principle again-- >> >> > the principle entails that these coordinated contractions and >> >> > dilations must be exactly the same function of velocity for each >> >> > inertial frame, along with the principle of spatial isotropy, in order >> >> > to narrow down the deformations to just those encoded in the Lorentz >> >> > transformations. What has been shown is that rods and clocks must >> >> > behave in quite particular ways in order for the two postulates to be >> >> > true together. But this hardly amounts to an explanation of such >> >> > behaviour. Rather things go the other way around. It is because rods >> >> > and clocks behave as they do, in a way that is consistent with the >> >> > relativity principle, that light is measured to have the same speed in >> >> > each inertial frame." >> >> >> > That is, the speed of light is constant because Einsteinians can trap >> >> > a long train inside a short tunnel: >> >> >> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIyDfo_mY&mode=related&search= >> >> >> > and also �a 80m long pole inside a 40m long barn: >> >> >> >http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/barn_pole.html >> >> > "These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors >> >> > at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a >> >> > switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in >> >> > the barn....So, as the pole passes through the barn, there is an >> >> > instant when it is completely within the barn. At that instant, you >> >> > close both doors simultaneously, with your switch. Of course, you open >> >> > them again pretty quickly, but at least momentarily you had the >> >> > contracted pole shut up in your barn." >> >> >> > If Einsteinians were unable to perform miracles of this kind, the >> >> > speed of light would be variable and would obey the equation c'=c+v >> >> > given by Newton's emission theory of light, where v is the relative >> >> > speed of the light source and the observer. >> >> >> > Pentcho Valev >> >> > pva...@yahoo.com >> >> >> Isn't the velocity of light the same irregardless of the motion of the >> >> source or the observer? �Only a frequency change results? �But....what >> >> is the light traveling relative to???????- >> >> >The dielectric of free-space: >> >> >Propagation in a dielectric medium >> >http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node98.html >> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_space >> >http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what.html >> >> 'EMPTY' space has NO dielectric properties. > >What makes you say that? >When are you going to learn that physicists don't dictate physical >laws to nature? It goes the other way around. Prove I'm wrong.... Henri Wilson. ASTC,BSc,DSc(T) www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm Relativists believe that a rotating Sagnac viewed in the rotating frame is identical to a nonrotating one viewed from the nonrotating frame. Hahahaha! What about all the imaginary effects?
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