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Article #882Re: How does the Light Move?
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:19
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:19
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On Dec 20, 3:52 am, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Note also that Einstein's second postulate is not actually > required to develop the theory. A suitable alternate is: > no signal propagates with infinite speed. Tom Roberts' texts are either extremely stupid or extremely dishonest (or both). Here is another one where Roberts solemnly declares that even if the speed of light does depend on the speed of the light source as Newton's emission theory of light requires (even if "light in vacuum does not travel at the invariant speed of the Lorentz transform"), Divine Albert's Divine Special Relativity "would be unaffected": http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/dc1ebdf49c012de2 Tom Roberts: "If it is ultimately discovered that the photon has a nonzero mass (i.e. light in vacuum does not travel at the invariant speed of the Lorentz transform), SR would be unaffected but both Maxwell's equations and QED would be refuted (or rather, their domains of applicability would be reduced)." Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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