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  • Teaching Einstein's 1905 Constant-Speed-of-Light Falsehood

    From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 17 01:33:28 2023
    Einstein's 1905 constant-speed-of-light falsehood is imposed on physics students just as uncompromisingly as the name Bingo the Clowno is imposed on the dude in this video:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=iIXIdl5uMGQ

    On graduation, each physics student gets the name Bingo the Einsteiniano: http://www.staqs.com/images/Waterloo_Einstein_09-2005.jpg

    Example:

    Professor Joe Wolfe: "At this stage, many of my students say things like "The invariance of the speed of light among observers is impossible" or "I can't understand it". Well, it's not impossible. It's even more than possible, it is true. This is
    something that has been extensively measured, and many refinements to the Michelson and Morley experiment, and complementary experiments have confirmed this invariance to very great precision. As to understanding it, there isn't really much to understand.
    However surprising and weird it may be, it is the case. It's the law in our universe. The fact of the invariance of c doesn't take much understanding." https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/jw/module3_weird_logic.htm

    Pentcho Valev https://twitter.com/pentcho_valev

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  • From Pentcho Valev@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 17 13:29:42 2023
    Brian Greene teaches Einstein's constant-speed-of-light falsehood:

    https://youtu.be/-Irlq3TFr8Q?t=65

    The brainwasher would never tell the audience that, as Gracie runs towards or away from George with speed v, she measures a frequency shift from f=c/λ to f'=(c±v)/λ. Why is Greene silent about the frequency shift? Because the frequency shift obviously
    entails a speed-of-light shift from c to c'=c±v:

    "The Doppler effect is the shift in frequency of a wave that occurs when the wave source, or the detector of the wave, is moving. Applications of the Doppler effect range from medical tests using ultrasound to radar detectors and astronomy (with
    electromagnetic waves)...Moving Observer. Let's say you, the observer, now move toward the source with velocity Vo. You encounter more waves per unit time than you did before. Relative to you, the waves travel at a higher speed: V' = V+Vo. The frequency
    of the waves you detect is higher, and is given by: f' = V'/λ = (V+Vo)/λ." http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/211-sp06/class19/class19_doppler.html

    Pentcho Valev https://twitter.com/pentcho_valev

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