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Re: MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT: LIES AND TRUTH

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From: Juan R. González-Álvarez
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





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