From: Pentcho Valev on
PREMISE: The speed of light varies with the gravitational potential
(c'=c(1+phi/c^2) according to Newton's emission theory of light and
c'=c(1+2phi/c^2) according to Einstein's general relativity).

CONCLUSION 1: Light emitted by a celestial body with a substantial
gravitational field leaves the field and continues its journey with
speed c' lower than c (part of the redshift is due to this).

CONCLUSION 2: Light emitted by the top of a tower reaches an observer
on the ground with speed c' higher than c. Equivalently, light emitted
by the front end of an accelerating rocket reaches an observer at the
back end with speed c' higher than c (that is, the speed of light
varies with the speed of the observer, in contradiction with
Einstein's 1905 false light postulate).

Pentcho Valev
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From: Pentcho Valev on
PREMISE 1: The wavelength of light cannot vary with the speed of the
observer.

PREMISE 2: (frequency) = (speed of light)/(wavelength)

CONCLUSION: The speed of light varies with the speed of the observer,
that is, Einstein's 1905 light postulate is false.

Pentcho Valev
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From: Pentcho Valev on
PREMISE: By increasing the perimeter of a rotating disc while keeping
the linear speed of the periphery constant, one converts clocks fixed
on the periphery into VIRTUALLY INERTIAL clocks (the "gravitational
field" they experience is reduced to zero).

CONCLUSION: In accordance with Einstein's 1905 light postulate, a
clock at rest situated outside the disc, close to the periphery, will
be seen running SLOWER than the virtually inertial clocks passing it.
Another prediction based on Einstein's 1905 light postulate is that
the clock at rest will be seen running FASTER than the virtually
inertial clocks passing it ( http://www2.bartleby.com/173/23.html ).
Clearly we have REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM showing that Einstein's 1905
light postulate is false.

Pentcho Valev
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From: Pentcho Valev on
PREMISE (Einstein's 1905 light postulate):
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
"...light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity
c which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body."

CONCLUSION: In the bug-rivet scenario described below an observer
travelling with the rivet will see the bug being squashed. Observers
at rest relative to the bug will see it alive and kicking. Clearly we
have REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM showing that Einstein's 1905 light postulate
is false.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/Relativ/bugrivet.html
"The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is
similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the
bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it
looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's
point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just
0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the
bug....The paradox is not resolved."

Pentcho Valev wrote:

PREMISE: By increasing the perimeter of a rotating disc while keeping
the linear speed of the periphery constant, one converts clocks fixed
on the periphery into VIRTUALLY INERTIAL clocks (the "gravitational
field" they experience is reduced to zero).

CONCLUSION: In accordance with Einstein's 1905 light postulate, a
clock at rest situated outside the disc, close to the periphery, will
be seen running SLOWER than the virtually inertial clocks passing it.
Another prediction based on Einstein's 1905 light postulate is that
the clock at rest will be seen running FASTER than the virtually
inertial clocks passing it ( http://www2.bartleby.com/173/23.html ).
Clearly we have REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM showing that Einstein's 1905
light postulate is false.

Pentcho Valev
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From: Pentcho Valev on
The formula:

(frequency) = (speed of light)/(wavelength)

has always been a nightmare in Einsteiniana. This formula makes the
obvious fact "Both the frequency and the speed of light vary with the
speed of the observer", a fact consistent with both Maxwell's theory
and Newton's emission theory of light (but not with Divine Albert's
Divine Special Relativity), too obvious. That is, even in
Einsteiniana's schizophrenic world, where any idiocy is welcome, the
formula might prove dangerous for Einstein's 1905 false light
postulate. So Einsteinians fiercely teach that it is the wavelength
that varies with the speed of the observer:

http://sampit.geol.sc.edu/Doppler.html
"Moving observer: A man is standing on the beach, watching the tide.
The waves are washing into the shore and over his feet with a constant
frequency and wavelength. However, if he begins walking out into the
ocean, the waves will begin hitting him more frequently, leading him
to perceive that the wavelength of the waves has decreased."

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/big_bang/index.html
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)."

Similarly, when confronted with Hubble redshift, Einsteinians fiercely
teach that the allegedly EXPANDING universe somehow "stretches" the
wavelength and so the constancy of the speed of light is saved.
However one is entitled to assume that this "stretching" is just as
silly as the variation of the speed of light with the speed of the
observer and advance the following argument:

PREMISE 1: The frequency of light coming from distant sources
decreases proportionally to the distance (Hubble redshift).

PREMISE 2: "Stretching" of the wavelength does not occur.

CONCLUSION: In our STATIC universe, the speed of light coming from
distant sources decreases proportionally to the distance.

Pentcho Valev wrote:

PREMISE 1: The wavelength of light cannot vary with the speed of the
observer.

PREMISE 2: (frequency) = (speed of light)/(wavelength)

CONCLUSION: The speed of light varies with the speed of the observer,
that is, Einstein's 1905 light postulate is false.

Pentcho Valev
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