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Old April 5th 13, 08:22 AM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default FUNDAMENTAL PHANTASMS IN PHYSICS

Initially the observer is at rest with respect to the light source and measures the frequency to be f=c/L, where c is the speed of the light waves relative to the observer and L is the wavelength.

Hypothesis: If the observer starts moving towards the source with speed v, the speed of the light waves relative to him shifts from c to c'=c+v.

The hypothesis is extremely easy to test experimentally: if the speed of the waves shifts from c to c'=c+v, then the frequency the observer measures will shift from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L.

The observer does measure the frequency: yes it shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L. The hypothesis is confirmed... No! Help! Help! Divine Einstein! Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity! Crimestop! Crimestop! Crimestop!

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwe...hapter2.9.html
"Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."

So the obvious fact that the wavecrests hit the observer more frequently because their speed relative to him has increased is consigned to oblivion in Divine Albert's world. Still there is a fundamental phantasm dwelling in the subconsciousness of Einsteinians:

If the frequency shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L but the speed of the waves relative to the observer should remain unchanged because Divine Albert said so, then the motion of the observer causes the wavelength to shift from L=c/f to L'=c/f', Divine Einstein, yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity!

See more he

http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-f...equency_Im.pdf
Shift in Frequency Implies Shift in Speed of Light

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