• Einstein and Newton's Emission Theory of Light

    From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 23 07:03:08 2023
    Albert Einstein 1909: "A large body of facts shows undeniably that light has certain fundamental properties that are better explained by Newton's emission theory of light than by the oscillation theory. For this reason, I believe that the next phase in
    the development of theoretical physics will bring us a theory of light that can be considered a fusion of the oscillation and emission theories." https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:The_Development_of_Our_Views_on_the_Composition_and_Essence_of_
    Radiation

    Remorse or...what? Here is the story:

    John Norton: "Einstein could not see how to formulate a fully relativistic electrodynamics merely using his new device of field transformations. So he considered the possibility of modifying Maxwell's electrodynamics in order to bring it into accord with
    an emission theory of light, such as Newton had originally conceived. There was some inevitability in these attempts, as long as he held to classical (Galilean) kinematics. Imagine that some emitter sends out a light beam at c. According to this
    kinematics, an observer who moves past at v in the opposite direction, will see the emitter moving at v and the light emitted at c+v. This last fact is the defining characteristic of an emission theory of light: the velocity of the emitter is added
    vectorially to the velocity of light emitted...If an emission theory can be formulated as a field theory, it would seem to be unable to determine the future course of processes from their state in the present. As long as Einstein expected a viable theory
    of light, electricity and magnetism to be a field theory, these sorts of objections would render an emission theory of light inadmissible." http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/companion.pdf

    That is, in devising his theory of special relativity, Einstein abandoned Newton's emission theory with its variable speed of light, and "borrowed" from the ether theory a continuous-field model of light with constant speed of light:

    "The two first articles (January and March) establish clearly a discontinuous structure of matter and light. The standard look of Einstein's SR is, on the contrary, essentially based on the continuous conception of the field." http://arxiv.org/ftp/
    physics/papers/0101/0101109.pdf

    "Einstein's March paper treated light as particles, but special relativity sees light as a continuous field of waves." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/genius/

    Banesh Hoffmann, Relativity and Its Roots, p.92: "Moreover, if light consists of particles, as Einstein had suggested in his paper submitted just thirteen weeks before this one, the second principle seems absurd: A stone thrown from a speeding train can
    do far more damage than one thrown from a train at rest; the speed of the particle is not independent of the motion of the object emitting it. And if we take light to consist of particles and assume that these particles obey Newton's laws, they will
    conform to Newtonian relativity and thus automatically account for the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment without recourse to contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations. Yet, as we have seen, Einstein resisted the temptation
    to account for the null result in terms of particles of light and simple, familiar Newtonian ideas, and introduced as his second postulate something that was more or less obvious when thought of in terms of waves in an ether. If it was so obvious, though,
    why did he need to state it as a principle? Because, having taken from the idea of light waves in the ether the one aspect that he needed, he declared early in his paper, to quote his own words, that "the introduction of a 'luminiferous ether' will
    prove to be superfluous." https://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Its-Roots-Banesh-Hoffmann/dp/0486406768

    Albert Einstein: "I introduced the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light, which I borrowed from H. A. Lorentz's theory of the stationary luminiferous ether." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory

    Then, one year before his death, Einstein made a confession: The continuous-field model of light, with its false tenet, the constancy of the speed of light, had actually killed physics:

    Albert Einstein (1954): "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures. Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the theory of gravitation, but also nothing
    of the rest of contemporary physics." John Stachel, Einstein from 'B' to 'Z', p. 151 https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-B-Z-John-Stachel/dp/0817641432

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  • From Lou@21:1/5 to Pentcho Valev on Thu Mar 23 12:56:39 2023
    On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 14:03:10 UTC, Pentcho Valev wrote:
    Albert Einstein 1909: "A large body of facts shows undeniably that light has certain fundamental properties that are better explained by Newton's emission theory of light than by the oscillation theory. For this reason, I believe that the next phase in
    the development of theoretical physics will bring us a theory of light that can be considered a fusion of the oscillation and emission theories." https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:The_Development_of_Our_Views_on_the_Composition_and_Essence_of_
    Radiation

    Einstein at his best.
    That is ...his best pseudoscience as usual. He says in the above
    translated paper that aether could be ruled out . Presumably referring to
    MMX. Yet he ignores the fact that MMX doesn’t rule out an aether or a vacuum. It just confirms that whatever the aether/vacuum is made
    of ...it doesn’t impede the movenent of light waves. And it doesn’t take MMX to discover this. Seeing as We already knew the aether/didnt affect
    the motion of planets and stars through its medium. Otherwise Newton
    couldn’t have devised his r^2 formulae. And anyone with brains can
    realise that if the aether / vacuum doesn’t impede the motion of atoms,
    then light waves and their propagation through space , being much more ethereal in constitution than atoms wouodnt be affected either.
    And finally the Fizeau nonsense. All of them got it wrong about Fizeau.
    The water slows down the light speed at a percentage. Not at the V+v that
    the low IQ theorists of the day erroneously thought.
    But it makes sense that it shouldnt be V+v. Imagine you are a person
    (Emr) going at speed V through a crowd of people. The crowd spacing between people is 2 m apart. Each time You bump into a person it slows you down by
    a percentage which defines V. That’s a percentage defined by the density
    of the spacing of the crowd.
    Now have them move towards you at v. Are you slowed down even more by V+v?
    No. What you do is calculate by how much more the density of the crowd
    is now you are hitting more people per second. And it works out that
    the relative density of the crowd increases for you as you move through
    it ( as it moves towards you)
    Therefore it’s not V+v as the low IQ Einstein thought. It’s V+%v.
    Which is what Fizeau observed.
    It’s called classical physics based on observations and logic.


    And Maxwell got it wrong too. It’s not actually an electro magnetic wave Electrons are fantasies. It’s an oscillating self propagating magnetic
    wave. Technically it should be MR. Not EMR.
    Remorse or...what? Here is the story:

    John Norton: "Einstein could not see how to formulate a fully relativistic electrodynamics merely using his new device of field transformations. So he considered the possibility of modifying Maxwell's electrodynamics in order to bring it into accord
    with an emission theory of light, such as Newton had originally conceived. There was some inevitability in these attempts, as long as he held to classical (Galilean) kinematics. Imagine that some emitter sends out a light beam at c. According to this
    kinematics, an observer who moves past at v in the opposite direction, will see the emitter moving at v and the light emitted at c+v. This last fact is the defining characteristic of an emission theory of light: the velocity of the emitter is added
    vectorially to the velocity of light emitted...If an emission theory can be formulated as a field theory, it would seem to be unable to determine the future course of processes from their state in the present. As long as Einstein expected a viable theory
    of light, electricity and magnetism to be a field theory, these sorts of objections would render an emission theory of light inadmissible." http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/companion.pdf

    That is, in devising his theory of special relativity, Einstein abandoned Newton's emission theory with its variable speed of light, and "borrowed" from the ether theory a continuous-field model of light with constant speed of light:

    "The two first articles (January and March) establish clearly a discontinuous structure of matter and light. The standard look of Einstein's SR is, on the contrary, essentially based on the continuous conception of the field." http://arxiv.org/ftp/
    physics/papers/0101/0101109.pdf

    "Einstein's March paper treated light as particles, but special relativity sees light as a continuous field of waves." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/genius/

    Banesh Hoffmann, Relativity and Its Roots, p.92: "Moreover, if light consists of particles, as Einstein had suggested in his paper submitted just thirteen weeks before this one, the second principle seems absurd: A stone thrown from a speeding train
    can do far more damage than one thrown from a train at rest; the speed of the particle is not independent of the motion of the object emitting it. And if we take light to consist of particles and assume that these particles obey Newton's laws, they will
    conform to Newtonian relativity and thus automatically account for the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment without recourse to contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations. Yet, as we have seen, Einstein resisted the temptation
    to account for the null result in terms of particles of light and simple, familiar Newtonian ideas, and introduced as his second postulate something that was more or less obvious when thought of in terms of waves in an ether. If it was so obvious, though,
    why did he need to state it as a principle? Because, having taken from the idea of light waves in the ether the one aspect that he needed, he declared early in his paper, to quote his own words, that "the introduction of a 'luminiferous ether' will
    prove to be superfluous." https://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Its-Roots-Banesh-Hoffmann/dp/0486406768

    Albert Einstein: "I introduced the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light, which I borrowed from H. A. Lorentz's theory of the stationary luminiferous ether." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory

    Then, one year before his death, Einstein made a confession: The continuous-field model of light, with its false tenet, the constancy of the speed of light, had actually killed physics:

    Albert Einstein (1954): "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures. Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the theory of gravitation, but also
    nothing of the rest of contemporary physics." John Stachel, Einstein from 'B' to 'Z', p. 151 https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-B-Z-John-Stachel/dp/0817641432

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  • From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 23 13:31:29 2023
    The null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment had directly ("without recourse to contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations") confirmed Newton's variable speed of light

    https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f10f1c25528a4e5edc9bae200640f31c-pjlq

    but Einstein "resisted the temptation to account for the null result in terms of particles of light and simple, familiar Newtonian ideas, and introduced as his second postulate something that was more or less obvious when thought of in terms of waves in
    an ether":

    "Moreover, if light consists of particles, as Einstein had suggested in his paper submitted just thirteen weeks before this one, the second principle seems absurd: A stone thrown from a speeding train can do far more damage than one thrown from a train
    at rest; the speed of the particle is not independent of the motion of the object emitting it. And if we take light to consist of particles and assume that these particles obey Newton's laws, they will conform to Newtonian relativity and thus
    automatically account for the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment without recourse to contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations. Yet, as we have seen, Einstein resisted the temptation to account for the null result in terms
    of particles of light and simple, familiar Newtonian ideas, and introduced as his second postulate something that was more or less obvious when thought of in terms of waves in an ether." Banesh Hoffmann, Relativity and Its Roots, p.92 https://www.amazon.
    com/Relativity-Its-Roots-Banesh-Hoffmann/dp/0486406768

    The "something" that Einstein introduced as his second postulate was by no means "more or less obvious when thought of in terms of waves in an ether". In Einstein's special relativity, the speed of light relative to the observer is INDEPENDENT OF THE
    SPEED OF THE OBSERVER, and this is just as preposterous as Big Brother's 2+2=5. Neither the particle model of light nor the wave-in-ether model of light can tolerate such nonsense. Assume that a light source emits equidistant pulses and an observer
    starts moving towards the source:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=bg7O4rtlwEE

    The speed of the light pulses relative to the stationary observer is

    c = df

    where d is the distance between subsequent pulses and f is the frequency at the stationary observer. The speed of the pulses relative to the moving observer is

    c'= df' > c

    where f' > f is the frequency at the moving observer.

    That is, the speed of light relative to the observer VARIES with the speed of the observer.

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