On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 5:40:17 AM UTC-7, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/...relativity.htm

John Stachel: "But here he ran into the most blatant-seeming contradiction, which I mentioned earlier when first discussing the two principles. As noted then, the Maxwell-Lorentz equations imply that there exists (at least) one inertial frame in which the speed of light is a constant regardless of the motion of the light source. Einstein's version of the relativity principle (minus the ether) requires that, if this is true for one inertial frame, it must be true for all inertial frames. 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."



The problem is still unsolved:



http://rockpile.phys.virginia.edu/mod04/mod34.pdf

Paul Fendley: "Now let's see what this does to the frequency of the light. We know that even without special relativity, observers moving at different velocities measure different frequencies. (This is the reason the pitch of an ambulance changes as it passes you it doesn't change if you're on the ambulance). This is called the Doppler shift, and for small relative velocity v it is easy to show that the frequency shifts from f to f(1+v/c) (it goes up heading toward you, down away from you). There are relativistic corrections, but these are negligible here."



That is, if the frequency measured by the stationary observer is f=c/L (L is the wavelength), the frequency measured by an observer moving towards the light source with speed v is:



f' = f(1+v/c) = (c+v)/L = c'/L



where c'=c+v has a definite physical meaning: it is the speed of the light waves relative to the moving observer. Clearly special relativity is violated. Einsteinians, if there are any left, couldn't care less of course.



Pentcho Valev

Einstein's theory that the speed of light is constant comes from the Michelson-Morley's experiment. They all assumed that the Earth moves around the Sun. Now if that assumption was incorrect (meaning the Earth is stationary), then obviously the measured speed of light is constant.