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On Dec 9, 12:54 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The following text is consistent with Einstein's relativity theory but
> inconsistent with both Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and Newton's
> emission theory of light:
>
> http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/big_bang/ind...
> John Norton: "Here's a light wave and an observer. If the observer
> were to hurry towards the source of the light, the observer would now
> pass wavecrests more frequently than the resting observer. That would
> mean that moving observer would find the frequency of the light to
> have increased (AND CORRESPONDINGLY FOR THE WAVELENGTH - THE DISTANCE
> BETWEEN CRESTS - TO HAVE DECREASED)."

And this is directly confirmed in experiment.
However, it is consistent with Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; you
got that wrong.

>
> The following text is consistent with both Maxwell's electromagnetic
> theory and Newton's emission theory of light but inconsistent with
> Einstein's relativity theory:
>
> Here's a light wave and an observer. If the observer were to hurry
> towards the source of the light, the observer would now pass
> wavecrests more frequently than the resting observer. That would mean
> that moving observer would find the frequency of the light to have
> increased (AND CORRESPONDINGLY FOR THE SPEED OF LIGHT - TO HAVE
> INCREASED AS WELL).

And this is directly contradicted by experiment. Newton was wrong
about light.

>
> Conclusion: Either both Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and Newton's
> emission theory are wrong or Einstein's relativity theory is wrong.

Newton's theory was wrong.

>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com