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Old February 17th 17, 01:30 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default How the Pound-Rebka Experiment Disproves Einstein's Relativity

Pound, Rebka and Snider knew that their experiments had confirmed the variable speed of light predicted by Newton's emission theory of light, not the gravitational time dilation predicted by general relativity:

http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1...sRevLett.4.337
R. V. Pound and G. A. Rebka, Jr, APPARENT WEIGHT OF PHOTONS

http://virgo.lal.in2p3.fr/NPAC/relat...iers/pound.pdf
R. V. Pound and J. L. Snider, Effect of Gravity on Gamma Radiation: "It is not our purpose here to enter into the many-sided discussion of the relationship between the effect under study and general relativity or energy conservation. It is to be noted that no strictly relativistic concepts are involved and the description of the effect as an "apparent weight" of photons is suggestive. The velocity difference predicted is identical to that which a material object would acquire in free fall for a time equal to the time of flight. [...] The view that the local time scale depends on gravitational potential appears to require a coherent source for confirmation. The present experiment is unable to distinguish between frequency changes and velocity changes, for example. It appears as if experimental comparison of clocks at different potentials would make a useful complementary contribution to the over-all status of theory."

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