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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:52:46 -0600, Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

>Pentcho Valev wrote:
>> On Dec 18, 3:27 am, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
>> sci.physics.relativity:
>>> In our best model of light, QED, the photon is NOT a particle. Neither is it a
>>> wave.
>>>         There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
>>>         Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. -- Shakespeare
>>> There is no expectation that words and concepts from your everyday life capture
>>> the essence of phenomena far removed from you everyday experience. Photons and
>>> quantum phenomena are indeed far removed (you experience light, not photons or
>>> their quantum implications).
>> 
>> Honest Roberts stop introducing red herrings!
>
>Dishonest Valev stop ignoring the context! I was responding to marcofuics, and 
>this is not at all a red herring.
>
>
>> You know that the
>> problem crucial for contemporary physics is: Does the speed of light
>> depend on the speed of the light source, as Newton's emission theory
>> of light assumes, or is it independent of the speed of the light
>> source, as Einstein's special relativity assumes.
>
>This is not a "crucial problem" at all, because it has been answered. 
>Definitively. As only EXPERIMENTS can do. There are numerous measurements of the 
>speed of light emitted by moving sources, and they all obtain c within their 
>resolutions. Modeling the speed of light emitted by a source moving with speed v 
>as c+kv, experimental measurements require k<2*10^-9, SOLIDLY refuting emission 
>theories such as Newton's:
>http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html#moving-source_tests

Such lab experiments have alternative explanations.

The only real test of the emission theory is the way in which it can simulate
variable star brightness curves based on c+v values from orbiting stars. 

Matches like these:

http://www.scisite.info/USge.jpg
http://www.scisite.info/UCep.jpg
http://www.scisite.info/group1.jpg
http://www.scisite.info/R_Cru.jpg
http://www.scisite.info/falseeclipse.jpg

.....and many others, are pretty convincing evidence that light behaves
ballistically as it travels across the vacuum of space.

I can only feel very sorry for all those deluded astronomers who are plainly
wasting their time because of Einstein. 

Henry Wilson...www.scisite.info/index.htm

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