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Science > Physics |
| User: |
"Pentcho Valev" |
| Date: |
12 Mar 2007 02:12:15 AM |
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TRAGEDY IN THE RELATIVITY CULT |
Has the Michelson-Morley experiment proved that the speed of light is
constant? Stephen Hawking FRS says it has:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html
"Both Mitchell and Laplace thought of light as consisting of
particles, rather like cannon balls, that could be slowed down by
gravity, and made to fall back on the star. But a famous experiment,
carried out by two Americans, Michelson and Morley in 1887, showed
that light always travelled at a speed of one hundred and eighty six
thousand miles a second, no matter where it came from. How then could
gravity slow down light, and make it fall back."
However other prominent relativists say the Michelson-Morley
experiment has not proved that the speed of light is constant:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
"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."
This problem (whether the Michelson-Morley experiment has proved that
the speed of light is constant) is extremely difficult and has been
torturing the greatest minds in the relativity cult for more than a
century. Recently relativists put on Einstein T-shirts and called for
help. Unfortunately the help did not come:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/10/BAGILOJ3DB1.DTL
"Thirty-three sessions were held as mini-seminars for first-year
students to grapple with Hawking's latest book, "A Briefer History of
Time." All freshmen in the College of Letters and Science were sent
copies of the slim hardback over the winter break and asked to read it
and take part in discussions in the spring before attending Hawking's
lecture. Some of the university's most decorated faculty volunteered
to lead the talks, including physics Nobel Laureate George Smoot and
astronomer Alex Filippenko, winner of numerous campus and national
teaching awards and the top vote-getter in students' reviews of their
professors. But Smoot taught a half-empty room of nine students. "He's
a Nobel laureate," said a dismayed Alix Schwartz, director of
academics for the undergraduate division of the College of Letters and
Science, "and half the students who signed up didn't show up."
Filippenko's 90-minute morning discussion in the Unit 2 dorm complex
drew seven students of the 19 who signed up. "I don't mind having a
small group, but it's a bit weird when people sign up and don't show
up," said Filippenko, a widely cited researcher who helped discover
that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Filippenko,
casual in an Einstein T-shirt, covered nearly all Hawking's book in
his talk. He gamely explained Einstein's theory of relativity using
metaphors, diagrams and formulas, receiving the odd glimmer of
comprehension in return."
Pentcho Valev
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| User: "Eric Gisse" |
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| Title: Re: TRAGEDY IN THE RELATIVITY CULT |
12 Mar 2007 02:33:41 AM |
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On Mar 11, 11:12 pm, "Pentcho Valev" <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]
You have been whining about relativity since 1999. Have you made any
measurable progress, or do you think people laughed at you as much
then as they do now?
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