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On Dec 25, 12:16 am, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
sci.physics.relativity:
> Uncle Al wrote:
> > Tom Roberts wrote:
> >> There is now an update the the FAQ page "What is the experimental basis
> >> of Special Relativity?".
>
> >> There has been a renaissance in tests of Special Relativity (SR), in
> >> part because considerations of quantum gravity imply that SR may well be
> >> violated at appropriate scales (very small distance, very high energy).
>
> > All talk, no action.
>
> No, there has been A LOT OF ACTION. Just read the FAQ page -- there are
> a lot of recent experiments.
>
> > "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is,
> > it doesn't matter how smart you are.  If it doesn't agree with
> > experiment, it's wrong," Richard Feynman.
>
> To date, SR agrees with each and every reproducible experiment within
> its domain of applicability.

Roberts Roberts if you were honest, in your updated FAQ page:

http://www.edu-observatory.org/physics-faq/Relativity/SR/experiments.html

you would have explained how exactly special relativity "agrees with
each and every reproducible experiment". Especially when experiments
essentially confirm the equation c'=c+v given by the emission theory
of light and contradict Einstein's 1905 light postulate. You often
hint at the problem but never discuss it in detail:

http://groups.google.com/group/fr.sci.physique/browse_frm/thread/128cc9ce0b836800?
Pentcho Valev:
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."

Tom Roberts: Sure. The fact that this one experiment is compatible
with other theories does not refute relativity in any way. The full
experimental record refutes most if not all emission theories, but not
relativity.

Pentcho Valev: THE POUND-REBKA EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH AN
EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT POSTULATE.

Tom Roberts: Sure.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com