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Re: A Riddle for Relativists.         

Group: sci.physics.relativity · Group Profile
Author: rbwinn
Date: Apr 27, 2008 17:24

On Apr 27, 9:03�am, Tom Roberts sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
>> The speed of sound is only 1,087 feet per second. �Half of that would
>> only be 543.5 feet per second. �That is not fast enough to change the
>> frequency of the light enough to worry about.
>
> Sure it is! This is how police radar and laser guns measure the speed of
> traffic, and they do so for motions ~100 times smaller. A laboratory
> instrument could measure speed thousands of times better than that.
>
> (Henri's "riddle" is utterly ridiculous, and shows how deep are his
> misunderstandings of very basic physics.)
>
> Tom Roberts

Radar does not change frequency. It is reflected from a target at the
same frequency it had before.
Robert B. Winn
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