"Surfer" wrote in message
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: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:51:14 -0700, Pentcho Valev
: wrote:
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: We should (everything
: else being equal) prefer the notion that light behaves like other wave
: phenomena (such as sound). This would allow us to bring back space and
: time as absolutes. And it would, to a large extent, restore the
: classical world view of Isaac Newton."
:
: Something along those lines is examined in he
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: On the Consistency between the Assumption of a
: Special System of Reference and Special Relativity
: Foundations of Physics,Vol.36,No.12,December 2006
: http://web.ist.utl.pt/d3264/publicat/art16.pdf
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: See "3.A FORMAL GALILEO TRANSFORMATION"
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: It shows how clocks and rulers could be defined that automatically
: compenstate for time dilation/length contraction etc., to allow
: Galilean transformations between coordinates.
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: Unfortunately, such devices appear too difficult to build.
:
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: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/arch.../02/Norton.pdf John
: Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as evidence
: for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost
: universally use it as support for the light postulate of special
: relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH
: AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT POSTULATE."
:
: The emission theory of light states that the speed of light is
: invariant, c, relative to the light source, but is variable, c'=c+v,
: relative to the observer, where v is the relative speed of the light
: source and the observer.
:
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: Are there any experiments which demonstrate this?
:
We are well past the experiment stage, optical gyroscopes are commonplace
technology.
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonde...nac/Sagnac.htm