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Re: MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT: LIES AND TRUTH

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From: Uncle Al
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:18
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Pentcho Valev 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.
> 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:
[snip crap]

   1)  No aether
http://arXiv.org/abs/0706.2031
Physics Today 57(7) 40 (2004)
http://physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-7/p40.shtml
<http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/Walsworth/pdf/PT_Romalis0704.pdf>  

   2) No Lorentz violation
<http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-5/index.html>
http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0287

   3) idiot

> Pentcho Valev
> pvalev@yahoo.com

An idiot is not half way to being an idiot-savant.

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