Banesh Hoffmann, Einstein's co-author, admits that, originally, the Michelson-Morley experiment was compatible with Newton's variable speed of light and, "without recourse to contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations", incompatible with
the constant speed of light posited by the ether theory and "borrowed" by Einstein in 1905:
"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
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com/Relativity-Its-Roots-Banesh-Hoffmann/dp/0486406768
Einsteinians are unable to read the above text, let alone analysing it. Crimestop includes, among other things, the power of "being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction".
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