On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:31:08 -0700, Pentcho Valev
wrote:


Surfer wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:51:14 -0700, Pentcho Valev
wrote:


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

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

See "3.A FORMAL GALILEO TRANSFORMATION"

It shows how clocks and rulers could be defined that automatically
compenstate for time dilation/length contraction etc., to allow
Galilean transformations between coordinates.

Unfortunately, such devices appear too difficult to build.


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.


Are there any experiments which demonstrate this?

Michelson-Morley and Pound-Rebka are not enough?

In what way are they relevant?

Eg. Have any papers been written that use the emission theory of light
to analyse these experiments?

-- Surfer