On Apr 19, 5:57В pm, Pentcho Valev
yahoo.com> wrote:>
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/browse_frm/thread/5497a506...?
> "Redshift - Does wavelength change?"
>
> Silly Vesselin Petkov has discovered that the gravitational redshift
> is due to the variation of the speed of light in a gravitational
> field, in accordance with Einstein's 1911 equation c'=c(1+V/c^2), but
> Criminal Tom Roberts fiercely confuses Silly Vesselin Petkov and does
> not allow him to leave the zombie group in Einstein criminal cult and
> become hypnotist.
> Pentcho Valev wrote:
>>
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
>> John Norton: "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."
>
> Sure. The fact that this one experiment is compatible with other
> theories does not refute relativity in any way. The full experimental
> record refutes most if not all emission theories, but not relativity.
>
>> THEPOUND-REBKAEXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH AN EMISSION THEORY
>> OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT POSTULATE.
>
> Sure. But this experiment, too, does not refute relativity. The full
> experimental record refutes most if not all emission theories, but not
> relativity.
