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Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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. And if we take light to consist of particles and assume
> that these particles obey Newton's laws, they will conform to
> Newtonian relativity and thus automatically account for the null
> result of the Michelson-Morley experiment without recourse to
> contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations. Yet, as
> we have seen, Einstein resisted the temptation to account for the null
> result in terms of particles of light and simple, familiar Newtonian
> ideas, and introduced as his second postulate something that was more
> or less obvious when thought of in terms of waves in an ether. If it
> was so obvious, though, why did he need to state it as a principle?
> Because, having taken from the idea of light waves in the ether the
> one aspect that he needed, he declared early in his paper, to quote
> his own words, that "the introduction of a 'luminiferous ether' will
> prove to be superfluous."
> 
> If Einstein had not "resisted the temptation to account for the null
> result in terms of particles of light and simple, familiar Newtonian
> ideas", human rationality would not have been destroyed so
> irreversibly:

... and Pentcho Pisspo would not have turned instanly insane
when he first got exposed to 5th grade physics. It's a cruel
world and it's all Einstein's fault indeed.

Dirk Vdm