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  • Einstein's 1905 Two Falsehoods That Killed Physics

    From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 12 12:29:13 2022
    Einstein's 1905 two falsehoods, marked in capitals, that killed physics (actually, the speed of light does depend on the speed of the emitting body, as per Newton, and the "peculiar consequence" is non sequitur - does not logically follow from Einstein's
    1905 postulates):

    Albert Einstein, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, 1905: "Light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c which is INDEPENDENT OF THE STATE OF MOTION OF THE EMITTING BODY [...] FROM THIS THERE ENSUES THE FOLLOWING PECULIAR
    CONSEQUENCE. If at the points A and B of K there are stationary clocks which, viewed in the stationary system, are synchronous; and if the clock at A is moved with the velocity v along the line AB to B, then on its arrival at B the two clocks no longer
    synchronize, but the clock moved from A to B lags behind the other which has remained at B by t^2/2c^2 (up to magnitudes of fourth and higher order), t being the time occupied in the journey from A to B." http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/
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  • From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 13 00:16:39 2022
    Einstein's 1905 constant-speed-of-light falsehood turned out to be highly malignant - it managed to kill physics within just a century:

    "He opened by explaining how Einstein's theory of relativity is the foundation of every other theory in modern physics and that the assumption that the speed of light is constant is the foundation of that theory. Thus a constant speed of light is
    embedded in all of modern physics and to propose a varying speed of light (VSL) is worse than swearing! It is like proposing a language without vowels." http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/VSLRevPrnt.html

    "If there's one thing every schoolboy knows about Einstein and his theory of relativity, it is that the speed of light in vacuum is constant. No matter what the circumstances, light in vacuum travels at the same speed... The speed of light is the very
    keystone of physics, the seemingly sure foundation upon which every modern cosmological theory is built, the yardstick by which everything in the universe is measured. [...] The only aspect of the universe that didn't change was the speed of light. And
    ever since, the constancy of the speed of light has been woven into the very fabric of physics, into the way physics equations are written, even into the notation used. Nowadays, to "vary" the speed of light is not even a swear word: It is simply not
    present in the vocabulary of physics." https://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Speed-Light-Speculation/dp/0738205257

    "The whole of physics is predicated on the constancy of the speed of light," Joao Magueijo, a cosmologist at Imperial College London and pioneer of the theory of variable light speed, told Motherboard. "So we had to find ways to change the speed of light
    without wrecking the whole thing too much." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q87gk/light-speed-slowed

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