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Joseph Goebbels: "If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes
truth".

Nowadays the lie:

"Michelson and Morley showed the constancy of the speed of light: a
beam of light will come at you at the same speed whether its source is
moving toward you or moving away from you, or whether you are moving
toward or away from it"

is truth, a truth immeasurably stronger than John Norton's truth:

"THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH AN EMISSION
THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT POSTULATE"

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/einsteins-quest-for-truth
"In 1887, however, an experiment by the American physicists Albert
Michelson and Edward Morley demonstrated that the speed of light is
always the same, at some 186,000 miles per second. This finding
contradicted Galilean relativity: if you applied the Galilean
transformation to two objects passing each other, each at 75 percent
of the speed of light, then their relative speed should be 150 percent
of the speed of light. Yet Michelson and Morley showed the constancy
of the speed of light: a beam of light will come at you at the same
speed whether its source is moving toward you or moving away from you,
or whether you are moving toward or away from it. Einstein faced this
contradiction between classical relativity and the constant speed of
light..."

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as
evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost
universally use it as support for the light postulate of special
relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE
WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT
POSTULATE."

Pentcho Valev
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