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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 1 Jun 2010 12:43


Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> Enrico wrote:
> (snipped)
>
> >
> > "The frequency of the photon "falling" towards the bottom of the tower
> > is blueshifted. Pound and Rebka countered the gravitational blueshift
> > by moving the emittor away from the receiver, thus generating a
> > relativistic Doppler redshift:"
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound-Rebka_experiment
> >
> >
> > Enrico
>

--- quoting from Wikipedia of the actual experiment itself ---
The test was carried out at Harvard University's Jefferson laboratory.
A solid sample containing iron (57Fe) emitting gamma rays was placed
in the center of a loudspeaker cone which was placed near the roof of
the building. Another sample containing 57Fe was placed in the
basement. The distance between this source and absorber was 22.5
meters (73.8 ft). The gamma rays traveled through a Mylar bag filled
with helium to minimize scattering of the gamma rays. A scintillation
counter was placed below the receiving 57Fe sample to detect the gamma
rays that were not absorbed by the receiving sample. By vibrating the
speaker cone the gamma ray source moved with varying speed, thus
creating varying Doppler shifts. When the Doppler shift canceled out
the gravitational blueshift, the receiving sample absorbed gamma rays
and the number of gamma rays detected by the scintillation counter
dropped accordingly.
--- end quoting ---

Enrico, correct me if I am wrong, but the above sounds to me like a
case in which
you have two refractors. Where you have photons hitting one refractor,
then those
refracted photons hitting a second refractor to restore what Pound and
Rebka
wanted to restore.

Correct me if wrong, but the above Pound and Rebka Experiment is
reproducable
by me in my own experiment of the Fiberglass panel in which I look at
oncoming
headlights of cars. They are redshifted. But now, suppose I find the
second Fiberglass
panel that refracts and scatters (scattering is an awfully important
feature of Pound
and Rebka and of mine own fiberglass). But suppose I find the
fiberglass panel
that counteracts the refraction and scattering of the first panel?

So I suspect that my own fiberglass panel experiment is a duplication
of Pound and
Rebka, only that Pound and Rebka have the theory all wrong and in
error.



Archimedes Plutonium
http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
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