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Old February 17th 17, 06:54 AM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default How the Michelson-Morley Experiment Disproves Einstein's Relativity

So we have thesis and antithesis, and no experiment can be compatible with both of them (unless the experiment is incorrect):

Statement 1: Speed of light varies with speed of the source.

Statement 2: Speed of light is independent of speed of the source.

In 1887 the Michelson-Morley experiment was compatible with Statement 1 - accordingly, since the experiment was correct, it could not be compatible with Statement 2:

"Emission theory, also called emitter theory or ballistic theory of light, was a competing theory for the special theory of relativity, explaining the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887. [...] The name most often associated with emission theory is Isaac Newton. In his corpuscular theory Newton visualized light "corpuscles" being thrown off from hot bodies at a nominal speed of c with respect to the emitting object, and obeying the usual laws of Newtonian mechanics, and we then expect light to be moving towards us with a speed that is offset by the speed of the distant emitter (c ± v)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory

After Lorentz and FitzGerald introduced their idiotic ad hoc assumptions, the Michelson-Morley experiment became compatible with Statement 2. Accordingly, since the experiment was still correct, it was now incompatible with Statement 1.

Again: Compatibility with both Statement 1 and Statement 2 (thesis and antithesis) is impossible unless the experiment is incorrect.

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