On Jul 10, 7:50*am, Pentcho Valev wrote:
On Jul 10, 2:18*pm, Ian Parker wrote in
sci.physics.relativity:



On 10 Jul, 11:41, Danny Milano wrote: Hi, I recently came across a very interesting *book by
Eric Baird called "Life Without Special Relativity". It
is 400 pages and has over 250 illustrations. The
following is sample excerpt from his web site. Can
someone pls. read and share where he may have gotten it
wrong? Because if he is right. There is possibility SR
is really wrong.

Salaam alekum!

This seems to read very like a buzzword generator. The only
substantive thing that you have said is the SR is an aether theory. In
fact Relativity got rid of the aether.

You say "Experimental tests" yet on the basis of aether you seem to be
talking in a prely philosopical way.

I would ask you

WHAT EXPERIMENTS CONTRADICT SR?

What experiments would tell you the difference between the different
theories?

Michelson-Morley and Pound-Rebka contradict special relativity.

Michelson-Morley in no way contradicts special relativity. You might
say it contradicts special relativity if you take out time dilation
and length contraction, but then again, that ain't special relativity,
is it?

Michelson-Morley directly confirms Newton's emission theory of light

The emission theory of light is consistent with Michelson-Morley, but
the emission theory of light is inconsistent with OTHER experimental
results. It is not proper to consider experiments in isolation when
evaluating the evidence in support of or against a theory.

but you can still save relativity by introducing, ad hoc, miracles -
time dilation, length contraction etc. So in Einstein zombie world a
single experiment can confirm two incompatible theories and
Einsteinians subtract the number of such experiments from the
"enormous" number of experiments that gloriously confirm Divine
Albert's Divine Theory and refute the emission theory. Up until
recently the Pound-Rebka experiment belonged to the latter group but
now Einsteinians suspect that this experiment, like the Michelson-
Morley experiment, confirms the emission theory as well. A
dispassionate and disinterested analysis would show that Pound-Rebka
unambiguously confirms Newton's emission theory of light and refutes
Divine Albert's Divine Theory.

Pentcho Valev