From: Inertial on
"Henry Wilson, DSc" <hw@..> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:17:48 +1000, "Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"Henry Wilson, DSc" <hw@..> wrote in message
>>news:2rata51qq4f3k5vocakneqeeaud8ugbda3(a)4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:25:53 +1000, "Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com>
>>> wrote:
>
>>>>> This isn't about sound, dear lady.
>>>>
>>>>I didn't say it was. And it isn't we can say that Doppler shift doesn't
>>>>change the light wave itself, it is an effect on what a particular
>>>>observer
>>>>measures about the wave.
>>>
>>> Your main problem is that you have preconceptions about the wave nature
>>> of
>>> light and its 'frequency'. In reality you have no model and are just
>>> raving.
>>
>>Doppler shift cannot change the light itself, as it is observer dependant.
>>Multiple observers of the same light will record different frequencies.
>>The
>>wave itself doesn't (and can't) change to make that happen, it is an
>>aretfact of the relative movement of the observer to the wave while
>>measuring it.
>
> What 'wave'?
> Light is particulate.

If so what's all your nonsense about fixed wavelengths, and frequencies
getting Doppler shifted, and phase differences at detectors :):) ??

From: Henry Wilson, DSc on
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:26:08 +1000, "Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com> wrote:

>"Henry Wilson, DSc" <hw@..> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:39:57 -0400, Jonah Thomas <jethomas5(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>hw@..(Henry Wilson, DSc) wrote:
>>>> Jonah Thomas <jethomas5(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >hw@..(Henry Wilson, DSc) wrote:
>>
>>>> >I don't get it. The classical model has the light travel at the same
>>>> >speed so if it goes different distances it will be out of phase. The
>>>> >important thing is not the point it started from but the fact that it
>>>> >travels different distances at the same speed.
>>>>
>>>> If the starting point was not important why would the path distances
>>>> be different? Sometimes you seem as clueless as inertial.
>>>
>>>I'll try to think it out.
>>>
>>>> >> >Agreed.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> You now see why the stationary points are important.
>>>> >
>>>> >No, I don't.
>>>>
>>>> You just used them, above, to determine the different path
>>>> differences. How can you now say they aren't important?
>>>
>>>They are of historical interest.
>>
>> They are vital for hte determination of the distance vt, a distance that
>> is
>> used identically in b oth SR and BaTh.
>
>But once you've got those figures, that we all agree on (though different in
>ballistic and SR, hence the difference in results) you no longer need fixed
>the points in the inertial frame.
>
>> I think it's time you read a little more about this.
>
>I think its time you thought a little more
>
>
>> Because it is the model that works.
>>
>> You are emulating inertial in trying to explain the behavior of light by
>> using
>> classical wave thepory....when it has been shown conclusively that light
>> is not
>> like that.
>
>It is most definitely not as you propose. it has constant speed relative to
>observer and its wavelength and frequency vary via a Doppler shift.
>
>Yet you still persist with a model for light that contradicts observation.
>
>And one that is immediately refuted by Sagnac.
>
>> Let's forget about oscillations and frequencies. They are totally
>> undefined and
>> you two certainly haven't a clue as to what they might imply.
>
>Light frequency seems well enough defined.
>
>> Let's just accept the BaTh 'wavelength' explanation. It works.
>
>No .. it doesn't.
>
>> The path lengths
>> are different
>
>Yes
>
>> therefore each path contains a different number of wavelengths
>
>Yes .. from the wavefront back toward the point in history where the waves
>were emitted
>
>> and the rays are out of phase when they reunite.
>
>No .. they aren't as they wavefronts of a moving ray are in sync. The same
>part of the wave, that left the source at the same time in opposite
>directions, is arriving at the detector at the same time. nothing happened
>along the way to change that.
>
>> End of story.
>
>End of story

Dougie needs you.



Henry Wilson...www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm

Einstein...World's greatest SciFi writer..
From: Inertial on
"Henry Wilson, DSc" <hw@..> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:35:06 +1000, "Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"Jonah Thomas" <jethomas5(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:20090914213306.6e4ba768.jethomas5(a)gmail.com...
>
>>> I can't say I understand what he's saying yet, but didn't the experiment
>>> show the rays were out of phase?
>>>
>>> Did the experiment show the wavelength was different?
>>
>>I think he means wrong by experiment that wavelength is invariant.
>>Experiment shows wavelength and frequency vary in accord with relativistic
>>Doppler.
>
> What experiments might those be?

They've been pointed out to you before.

>>There is just so much experimental evidence out there that support SR
>>predictions,
>
>
> What, like Sagnac, Fizeau and the Eddington's joke about the bending of
> light
> by the sun?


They've been pointed out to you before.

>>...how crackpots can make absurd claims that it doesn't work and
>>try to revive old theories that were refuted decades ago .. and expect to
>>be
>>treated seriously, is beyond me.
>
> BaTh has never been refuted.

Yes .. it has.

> Every known experiment supports it.

Nonsense .. you're deluded

>>If they have something new to bring to the table that is also consistent
>>with the experimental evidence, that's fine. Otherwise it is a waste of
>>everyone's time considering theories that are known not to match with
>>experimental and observational evidence.
>
> ....and you don't call the matching of so many star brightness curves
> entirely
> with fn(c+v) 'EVIDENCE'?

Nope

> Are you blind and well as stupid?

You're a liar

> This is the only known test of Einstein's P2 and it proves it indisputedly
> wrong.

Wrong


From: Inertial on
"Henry Wilson, DSc" <hw@..> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:32:30 +1000, "Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"Henry Wilson, DSc" <hw@..> wrote in message
>>news:offta511lmcjmo5p347mqdos4u9oqd88nl(a)4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:16:00 +1000, "Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>
>>> implies) is invariant in BaTh.
>>
>>yes
>>> Therefore the rays are out of phse when they
>>> reunite.
>>
>>wrong, as you measure wavelength from the leading edge (or wavefront) ..
>>the
>>part of the ray that left the source simultaneously and travelled for the
>>same time in opposite directions. There is no way it could have gotten
>>out
>>of phase in that time.
>>
>>> End of STORY.
>>
>>end of story
>
> Why don't you go off somewhere with demented dougie. You and he are about
> on
> the same idiocy level.

Which, of course, is nowhere near the high level of your idiocy, which is
way above anything any rational honest human could achieve


From: Jonah Thomas on
"Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com> wrote:
> "Jonah Thomas" <jethomas5(a)gmail.com> wrote
> > doug <xx(a)xx.com> wrote:
> >> Henry Wilson, DSc wrote:
> >
> >> > Wavelength is absolute and invariant. The path lengths are
> >different> > therefore the rays are out of phase when they meet. End
> >of story.>
> >> Wrong by experiment ralph. End of story.
> >
> > I can't say I understand what he's saying yet, but didn't the
> > experiment show the rays were out of phase?
> >
> > Did the experiment show the wavelength was different?
>
> I think he means wrong by experiment that wavelength is invariant.
> Experiment shows wavelength and frequency vary in accord with
> relativistic Doppler.

That sounds interesting. Do you have a link?