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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:46:17 -0800, Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On 9 Nov, 20:54, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
>sci.physics.research:
>> Doug Sweetser wrote:
>> > The Michelson-Morley experiment shows
>> > that the speed of light is constant, but the frequency and wavelength
>> > are not.
>>
>> The Michelson-Morley experiment (MMX) actually shows nothing of the
>> sort.
>
>Bravo Roberts bravo Tom bravo Albert Einstein of our generation
>(Hawking is no longer the Albert Einstein of our generation)! Your
>brother John Norton says something similar:
>
>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."

Einstein's view that light travels at the same speed c in all frames means that
all the light in both paths of the MMX apparatus move at c wrt all of its
components. This is exactly what the BaTh says...and obviates the need for the
LTs altogether.

Einstein and others at the time obviously still believed that an absolute
aether existed. He then modified that theory so that, in effect, every observer
carried around his own personal aether. Once again, this is exactly compatible
with BaTh, which says, "LIGHT MOVES AT C WRT ITS SOURCE AND EVERYTHING AT REST
IN THE SOURCE FRAME".

No experiment has yet tested whether or not light moves at c-v wrt an observer
moving at c wrt the source. 


Henri Wilson. ASTC,BSc,DSc(T)

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