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Old December 31st 13, 10:57 AM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default EINSTEINIANS LEAVE THE SINKING SHIP

Why are Einsteinians leaving the sinking ship so desperately? It takes not just stupidity but insanity to continue to believe that, as the observer starts moving towards the light source, the light pulses start hitting him more frequently (the frequency he measures increases) not because the speed of the pulses relative to the observer has increased (in violation of special relativity) but for some other reason:

A light source emits a series of pulses the distance between which is d (e.g. d=300000km). A stationary observer/receiver measures the frequency of the light pulses to be f=c/d:

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ler_static.gif

An observer/receiver moving with speed v (let v be small so that the relativistic corrections can be ignored) towards the light source measures the frequency of the light pulses to be f'=(c+v)/d:

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ector_blue.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg7O4rtlwEE
"Doppler effect - when an observer moves towards a stationary source. ...the velocity of the wave relative to the observer is faster than that when it is still."

Pentcho Valev