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Article #956Re: ETHICS IN THE ERA OF POSTSCIENTISM
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:04
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:04
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The myth according to which the constancy of the speed of light is inherent in Maxwell's equations is perhaps the strongest in Einsteiniana and yet the cleverest Einsteinian, John Norton, does hint at the truth sometimes: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002149/01/Norton.pdf John Norton: "The difficulty Einstein faced is that Maxwell’s electrodynamics cannot be an emission theory. One of the most important consequences of the theory is that light in a vacuum always propagates at the same speed, c=186,000 miles per second, WITH RESPECT TO THE ETHER. Its velocity of propagation is unaffected by the velocity of the emitter." Sooner or later Einsteiniana will have to face the sad truth that Einstein's 1905 false light postulate was inconsistent with both Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and Newton's emission theory of light. Pentcho Valev wrote: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Einstein1905.pdf Albert Einstein: "I certainly knew that the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light is something quite independent of the relativity postulate; and I considered what would be more probable, the principle of the constancy of c, as was demanded by Maxwell's equations, or the constancy of c, exclusively for an observer sitting at the light source. I decided in favor of the first..." Einstein is simply lying: Maxwell's equations presupposed that the speed of light was VARIABLE and obeyed the equation c'=c+v, where c is the speed of light relative to the ether and v is the speed of the observer relative to the ether. So the only reasonable choice consistent with the Michelson-Morley experiment was "the constancy of c, exclusively for an observer sitting at the light source", that is, the prediction of Newton's emission theory of light. Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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