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Article #6367Re: MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT: LIES AND TRUTH
From: Juan R. González-Álvarez
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:27
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:27
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Pentcho Valev wrote on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:05:21 -0700: > Lies: This is truth > http://www.newsweek.com/id/204892 > "In their namesake experiment, Albert Michelson (a physicist who won the > Nobel Prize in 1907) and Edward Morley (a chemist) showed that the speed > of light is always the same (now known to be 186,282 miles per second) > relative to stationary observers as well as moving ones. Nothing but > light has this property: if you are approaching a car that's moving 30 > miles per hour, and you're moving 30mph as well, the approaching car > appears to be coming at you at 60 mph. Not so with light. If you are > traveling at the speed of light, designated c, toward a light beam > moving directly toward you, it appears to be approaching at c, not 2c." > > Truth: This is your lie > In their namesake experiment, Albert Michelson (a physicist who won the > Nobel Prize in 1907) and Edward Morley (a chemist) showed (without > knowing it) that the speed of light varies with the speed of the light > source v in accordance with the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's > emission theory of light. If you are approaching a car that's moving 30 > miles per hour, and you're moving 30mph as well, the approaching car > appears to be coming at you at 60 mph. So with light. If you are > traveling at the speed of light, designated c where c is the speed of > light relative to the light source, toward a light beam moving directly > toward you, it appears to be approaching at 2c. > > Pentcho Valev > pvalev@yahoo.com -- http://www.canonicalscience.org/
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