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On Jul 15, 10:05 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lies:
>
> 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. [..]

Indeed Newsweek is wrong: M-M did not test for such a hypothesis,
which hypothesis is ambiguous if not misleading. The speed of light
according to them as well as according to SRT is independent of that
of the emitter (wave theory of light); consequently both Michelson and
Einstein stressed that, as measured in a stationary system, the speed
of light is c-v relatively to the moving system (nowadays many people
call that "closing speed").

> Truth:
>
> 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.
[..]
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

That is also a lie: their experiment was perfectly compatible with the
wave theory of light.

Harald