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Einstein's Original Nonsense : Light Speed Independent of Observer Speed

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Pentcho Valev

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May 14, 2023, 7:53:13 AM5/14/23
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Einstein's original nonsense: Speed of light (relative to the observer) independent of the speed of the observer https://youtu.be/-Irlq3TFr8Q?t=65

Einstein wrestled with his conscience "over a lengthy period of time, to the point of despair" before introducing the nonsense, and emerged victorious in the end!

"But this seems to be nonsense. How can it happen that the speed of light relative to an observer cannot be increased or decreased if that observer moves towards or away from a light beam? Einstein states that he wrestled with this problem over a lengthy period of time, to the point of despair." https://history.aip.org/exhibits/einstein/essay-einstein-relativity.htm

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Pentcho Valev

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May 15, 2023, 4:36:45 PM5/15/23
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In order for the speed of light relative to the moving observer to remain constant, the motion of the observer should cause a wavelength shift inversely proportional to the frequency shift. This is too preposterous so no one has the courage to teach it. Professors almost universally deduce the frequency shift from a speed-of-light shift, but this speed-of-light shift remains implicit and carefully camouflaged. Here is Brian Greene as an example:

The Relativistic Doppler Effect—Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBuLTzj3CWA

Some professors don't care much about Divine Albert's Divine Theory and teach the truth explicitly:

Professor Sidney Redner https://sites.santafe.edu/~redner/:

"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

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