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"G. L. Bradford" <glbrad01@insightbb.com> wrote in message 
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> "Pentcho Valev" <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Catastrophe in physics: the following two texts coexist and are
> treated with the same indifference by the postscientific community:
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> http://www.newsweek.com/id/204892
> "You might think there are no new revelations to be made about him,
> but for Einstein groupies the current volume addresses at least one
> key question: what did Einstein know about an 1887 experiment that
> discovered that the speed of light is invariant, regardless of the
> observer's speed or direction of motion�an idea that forms the core of
> special relativity and that Einstein did not mention when he laid out
> the theory of special relativity in a 1905 paper? Called the Michelson-
> Morley experiment, it disproved the existence of the ether, a
> substance once thought to carry light waves and form an absolute
> reference frame for space. In their namesake experiment, Albert
> Michelson (a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1907) and Edward
> Morley (a chemist) showed that the speed of light is always the same
> (now known to be 186,282 miles per second) relative to stationary
> observers as well as moving ones. Nothing but light has this property:
> if you are approaching a car that's moving 30 miles per hour, and
> you're moving 30mph as well, the approaching car appears to be coming
> at you at 60 mph. Not so with light. If you are traveling at the speed
> of light, designated c, toward a light beam moving directly toward
> you, it appears to be approaching at c, not 2c."
>
> 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."
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> Pentcho Valev
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>  No traveler travels, or observes itself to travel, at the speed of light. 
> Not even at 10%, or even at 1%, the speed of light. The speeding 
> traveler's observed relativity to the speed of light (whatever the 
> percentage) is strictly independent observer dependent. That speeding 
> traveler will always observe and measure the speed of light locally in its 
> own frame to be c.

Bullshit, that's only if he doesn't know how to use Doppler.