John Stachel: "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." http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits/...relativity.htm

Einstein made space and time "adjust themselves" and the speed of light did become constant (in Einstein's schizophrenic world, not in the real world):

Brian Greene: "Space and time adjust themselves in an exactly compensating manner so that observations of light's speed yield the same result, regardless of the observer's velocity." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics...-nutshell.html

Yet the constancy of the speed of light produced an even greater nonsense. Frequency shift plus constant speed of light entails wavelength shift, in accordance with the formula

(frequency) = (speed of light) / (wavelength)

That is, in this scenario

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg7O4rtlwEE

the moving observer will measure frequency increase only if, in front of him, the distance between light pulses somehow decreases. This wavelength shift triggered by the motion of the observer is too idiotic, even by the standards of the Einstein cult, and Einsteinians don't teach it explicitly. The scientific community still does not see the variable-wavelength idiocy, but this blindness cannot go on forever.

If there is a next, Einstein-free version of fundamental physics, Einstein's 1905 nonsensical axiom

"The speed of light is constant"

will be replaced with the correct and easily justifiable axiom

"For a given emitter, the wavelength of light is constant".

I have developed the idea in a series of tweets he https://twitter.com/pentcho_valev

Pentcho Valev