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On Mar 31, 8:48 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A light source emits light with frequency f, speed c (relative to the
> source) and wavelength L. A receiver moving with speed v relative to
> the source receives light with frequency f' (Doppler effect), speed
> c' (relative to the receiver) and wavelength L'. According to Newton's
> emission theory of light:
>
> f'=f(1+v/c); c'=c+v; L'=L
>
> Einstein's breathtaking alternative:
>
> f'=f((1+v/c)/(1-v/c))^(1/2); c'=c; L'=L/((1+v/c)/(1-v/c))^(1/2)
>
> The wavelength is determined by the light source so this dependence of
> the wavelength on the speed of the receiver (if the receiver starts
> accelerating the wavelength should start changing accordingly) is one
> of the silliest corollaries of Einstein's 1905 false light postulate.

The above objection against the dependence of the wavelength on the
speed of the receiver (which amounts to REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM) refutes
both Einsteiniana's interpretation of the Doppler effect and the
"expanding universe" hypothesis:

http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168
Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time", Chapter 3:
"In the 1920s, when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars
in other galaxies, they found something most peculiar: there were the
same characteristic sets of missing colors as for stars in our own
galaxy, but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward
the red end of the spectrum. To understand the implications of this,
we must first understand the Doppler effect. As we have seen, visible
light consists of fluctuations, or waves, in the electromagnetic
field. The wavelength (or distance from one wave crest to the next) of
light is extremely small, ranging from four to seven ten-millionths of
a meter. The different wavelengths of light are what the human eye
sees as different colors, with the longest wavelengths appearing at
the red end of the spectrum and the shortest wavelengths at the blue
end. Now imagine a source of light at a constant distance from us,
such as a star, emitting waves of light at a constant wavelength.
Obviously the wavelength of the waves we receive will be the same as
the wavelength at which they are emitted (the gravitational field of
the galaxy will not be large enough to have a significant effect).
Suppose now that the source starts moving toward us. When the source
emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us, so the distance
between wave crests will be smaller than when the star was stationary.
This means that the wavelength of the waves we receive is shorter than
when the star was stationary. Correspondingly, if the source is moving
away from us, the wavelength of the waves we receive will be longer.
In the case of light, therefore, means that stars moving away from us
will have their spectra shifted toward the red end of the spectrum
(red-shifted) and those moving toward us will have their spectra blue-
shifted."

Einsteinians now know that Einstein's 1905 false light postulate has
produced a wrong cosmology but.....it would be so painful to destroy
beautiful Potemkin's villages:

http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2008/10/30/41323/484
"Does the apparently constant speed of light change over the vast
stretches of the universe? Would our understanding of black holes,
ancient supernovae, dark matter, dark energy, the origins of the
universe and its ultimate fate be different if the speed of light were
not constant?.....Couldn't it be that the supposed vacuum of space is
acting as an interstellar medium to lower the speed of light like some
cosmic swimming pool? If so, wouldn't a stick plunged into the pool
appear bent as the light is refracted and won't that affect all our
observations about the universe. I asked theoretical physicist Leonard
Susskind, author of The Black Hole War, recently reviewed in Science
Books to explain this apparent anomaly....."You are entirely right,"
he told me, "there are all sorts of effects on the propagation of
light that astronomers and astrophysicists must account for. The point
of course is that they (not me) do take these effects into account and
correct for them." "In a way this work is very heroic but unheralded,"
adds Susskind, "An immense amount of extremely brilliant analysis has
gone into the detailed corrections that are needed to eliminate these
'spurious' effects so that people like me can just say 'light travels
with the speed of light.' So, there you have it. My concern about
cosmic swimming pools and bent sticks does indeed apply, but
physicists have taken the deviations into account so that other
physicists, such as Susskind, who once proved Stephen Hawking wrong,
can battle their way to a better understanding of the universe."

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hutchison/080616
"Grigori Potemkin (1739–1791) was a general-field marshal, Russian
statesman, and favorite of Empress Catherine the Great. He is alleged
to have built facades of non-existent villages along desolate
stretches of the Dnieper River to impress Catherine as she sailed to
the Crimea in 1787. Actors posing as happy peasants stood in front of
these pretty stage sets and waved to the pleased Empress....What has
all this to do with Einstein? The science establishment has a powerful
romantic desire to believe in Einstein. Therefore, they are not only
fooled by Einstein's tricks, they are prepared to defend his Potemkin
villages. A Potemkin village is a pretty picture to fool the gullible
romantic. Einstein was romantically infatuated with pretty pictures.
He deliberately sought theories that were aesthetically beautiful in
their harmony, symmetry, and simplicity. He romantically believed
something akin to Keats' famous poetic summation: "Beauty is truth and
truth, beauty." This is pure romanticism. I thought science was hard-
headed stuff, not romantic fluff. Silly me. Einstein used blackboard
mathematics to develop the pretty pictures that became the new physics
of a romantic age. That is why he is beloved by modernists who thrill
to the romance of his new cosmos. As we shall see, no such cosmos
exists."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com