sci.physics.particle

"PD" wrote in message
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On Mar 20, 3:02 am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
> On Mar 18, 7:29 pm, Tom Roberts wrote in
> sci.physics.relativity:
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> > John C. Polasek wrote:
> > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:14:22 GMT,TomRoberts
> > > wrote:
> > >> [Ignore Valev when he brings up Pound-Rebka and similar
> > >> experiments -- they do not measure speed.]
> > > I think, in a very important way, the experiment did effectively
> > > measure light speed, even though the authors thought frequency was
> > > reduced on the way up ("On the Weight of Photons" iirc).
> > > The Mossbauer filter on a speaker cone was oscillated at a minute
> > > rate, and spectral re-centering was achieved by the Doppler effect. On
> > > the up-stroke, the velocity neutralized the speedup of light as it
> > > left the gravity well.
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> > Think about it -- there is no time synchornization, and if the effect
> > were due to a change in speed there's no way for the apparatus to be
> > sensitive to it; that is, there's no "nominal distance" relative to
> > which a "speed change" could be measured. Their observations are
> > consistent with a change in frequency (measured via Doppler), and say
> > nothing at all about any change in speed. Whether or not the speed
> > changed in addition to the frequency cannot be answered by this
> > particular experiment.
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> I would agree with you Roberts Roberts if at this place you did not
> always stick your head in the sand, expose other parts of your body
> and fail to explain clearly the two incompatible implications of Pound-
> Rebka result f'=f(1+V/c^2). Let me do this for you:
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> The Pound-Rebka result f'=f(1+V/c^2) implies that:
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> (1) the speed of light in a gravitational filed is VARIABLE as
> Einstein suggests in his 1920 "Relativity" and obeys Einstein's 1911
> equation c'=c(1+V/c^2), whereas the wavelength remains constant. The
> application of Einstein's equivalence principle converts c'=c(1+V/c^2)
> into c'=c+v, an equation given by Newton's emission theory of light,
> where v is the relative speed of the light source and the observer in
> the absence of a gravitational field. Einstein's 1905 light postulate
> (c'=c) is false.
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> (2) the speed of light in a gravitational field is CONSTANT and obeys
> the equation c'=c, in contradiction to what Einstein claims in his
> 1920 "Relativity". The wavelength is variable and obeys the equation
> L'=L/(1+V/c^2). The application of Einstein's equivalence principle
> leads to the conclusion that the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's
> emission theory of light is wrong whereas Einstein's 1905 light
> postulate (c'=c) is correct.
>
> This is a minimum explanation Roberts Roberts - more could be said in
> favour of (1) and against (2).
>

| The above is incorrect in a number of ways.
| 1. The Pound-Rebka experiment in no way implies that the wavelength is
| constant. In fact, the opposite is true.

What does it imply, then, now that we know what it doesn't imply?

| 2. The equivalence principle in no way converts c'=c(1+V/c^2) into c'=c
| +v, and I frankly don't see how you could even come close to drawing
| that conclusion.

What does it convert to, then, and you frankly don't see shit, being as
blind
and stupid as the ignoramus Poe?



| 3. The 1905 light postulate applies to *inertial frames* only where
| there is no curvature throughout the frame.

What does that have to so with the price of rice in China or Pound-Rebka?

| That is what makes it the
| *special* theory of relativity as opposed to the *general* theory. The
| Pound-Rebka experiment is not an example of comparing lightspeed in
| two inertial frames.


Now that we know what it is not, what is Pound-Rebka an example of?

| 4. There is a distinct difference in a curved space between the speed
| of light measured *locally* and the speed of light measured from a
| different location in spacetime. It is as simple as measuring the
| speed of light at location A from a region near A, distinguished from
| measuring the speed of light at location A from a region B far away
| from A.

And how different are these differences?


| Tom's correct statement is that the speed of light in vacuum
| is always measured *locally* to be c.

He's lying. So are you, disgusting fuckhead.


| Measuring the speed of light at
| A from a region B and finding an answer c' =/= c does not change the
| truth of Tom's correct statement.

What correct statement are you babbling about now, shit-for-brains?