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On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:47:47 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen"
<paul.b.andersen@hiadeletethis.no> wrote:

>Dr. Henri Wilson wrote:
>> Look, I've tried to explain this to relativists but they're too dumb to
>> understand. You are more intelligent so can probably see what's going on. Read
>> carefully.
>> 
>> Consider you are on the ring and rotating with it at v.
>> Next to you is another ring that is NOT rotating.
>> 
>> At  certain instant, you emit two pulses of light in opposite directions around
>> the ring. You also place a mark on the nonrotating ring.
>> 
>> What happens to the mark?
>> Answer: it appears to move away from you at v.
>> By the time the pulses return, the mark has moved a distance vt away.
>> 
>> Of course YOU have no way of knowing that the mark represents the original
>> position of the emission point or that you are rotating with a peripheral speed
>> of v. You have every reason to believe that both pulses move away from you at c
>> and travel the same distance, 2piR in the same time. You are therefore
>> mystified by the fact that they are not in phase when they reunite.
>> 
>> This is a perfect example of how the use of rotating frames can be misleading.
>> In fact, the rays travel different distances EVEN IN THE ROTATING FRAME. 
>> AND their wavelengths are the same.  
>
>
>" MY wave is one in which the phase of the leading edge
>   is cycling as it moves."
>           - Henri Wilson -
>
>-- 
>Paul, still amused after all these years
>
>http://home.c2i.net/pb_andersen/

Your model of a photon is a drawing of a frozen sine wave moving at c wrt
little planet Earth.
How pathetic.....



Henri Wilson. ASTC,BSc,DSc(T)
www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm

....specialising in teaching physics to engineers and mathematicians....