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Androcles <Headmaster@Hogwarts.physics> wrote in message
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> "Helmut Wabnig" <hwabnig@ .- --- -. dotat> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:12:42 +0100, "Androcles"
>> <Headmaster@Hogwarts.physics> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> "Hayek" <hayektt@nospam.xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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>>>> Pentcho Valev wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=JokgnS1JtmMC
>>>>> "Relativity and Its Roots" By Banesh Hoffmann
>>>>> p.92: "There are various remarks to be made about this second
>>>>> principle. For instance, if it is so obvious, how could it turn out to
>>>>> be part of a revolution - especially when the first principle is also
>>>>> a natural one? Moreover, if light consists of particles, as Einstein
>>>>> had suggested in his paper submitted just thirteen weeks before this
>>>>> one, the second principle seems absurd: A stone thrown from a speeding
>>>>> train can do far more damage than one thrown from a train at rest; the
>>>>> speed of the particle is not independent of the motion of the object
>>>>> emitting it.
>>>> 
>>>> Let me concentrate on the last one first.
>>>> 
>>>> You can compare it to sound.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Let me concentrate on the first one first.
>>> NO YOU CANNOT! Light, sound and thrown stones do not compare
>>> in any way whatosover.
>>> 
>> 
>> No more ballistic light, Andro?
>> http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Orbit/Orbit.htm
>> w.
> 
> Wabbie,  I have never changed my mind; glad to see you have
> paid attention.  You can NOT compare light to sound. Nor can
> you compare it to mass. But then, you can't compare thrown stones
> to sound either.
> So what are you asking?

You are too stupid to understand, so *why* are you asking?

Dirk Vdm