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From: Inertial on 21 May 2010 01:46
"Pentcho Valev" <pvalev(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The interpretation of light as a "continuous field" (quite popular in
> the first half of the 20th century) implies that the wavelength of
> light varies with the speed of the emitter, just as the wavelength of
> sound varies with the speed of the emitter.

Which we fine

> In contrast, the
> interpretation of light as "discontinuous particles" implies that no
> INTERNAL characteristic of light can vary with the speed of the
> emitter.

Wrong. SR gives you a change in wavelength and frequency.

> So Einstein's 1954 confession can be construed as implying
> that the death of physics is due to WRONGLY assuming that the speed of
> light relative to the observer (an EXTERNAL characteristic of light)
> does not vary with the speed of the emitter

its been tested .. it doesn't vary

> while the wavelength (an
> INTERNAL characteristic of light)

Wavelength is an observed property .. not intrinsic

> does:

As SR predicts

[snip more nonsense and irrelevant quotes]


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