IS PHYSICS IN DANGER ?

A light source emits a series of pulses the distance between which is d (e.g. d=300000km). A stationary receiver/observer measures the frequency of the pulses to be f=c/d:

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The receiver starts moving with (small) speed v towards the light source - the measured frequency shifts from f=c/d to f'=(c+v)/d:

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Why does the frequency shift from f=c/d to f'=(c+v)/d ?

Answer 1 (if true, modern physics collapses): Because the speed of the pulses relative to the receiver shifts from c to c'=c+v.

Answer 2 (possibly preventing the collapse of modern physics): Because...

There is no reasonable statement that could become Answer 2.

Pentcho Valev

http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/doppler
Albert Einstein Institute: "Here is an animation of the receiver moving towards the source: (...) By observing the two indicator lights, you can see for yourself that, once more, there is a blue-shift - the pulse frequency measured at the receiver is somewhat higher than the frequency with which the pulses are sent out. This time, the distances between subsequent pulses are not affected, but still there is a frequency shift: As the receiver moves towards each pulse, the time until pulse and receiver meet up is shortened. In this particular animation, which has the receiver moving towards the source at one third the speed of the pulses themselves, four pulses are received in the time it takes the source to emit three pulses."

The speed of the light pulses relative to the stationary receiver is:

c = d/t

where d is the distance between subsequent pulses and t is the time until pulse and (stationary) receiver meet up. For the moving receiver, "the time until pulse and receiver meet up is shortened". This means that the speed of the pulses relative to the moving receiver is:

c' = d/t' = c + v

where t' is the time until pulse and moving receiver meet up (tt') and v is the speed of the receiver relative to the source.

The collapse of Einstein's relativity and physics as a whole is unavoidable..

Pentcho Valev

The top of a tower of height h emits light with frequency f, speed c and wavelength L (as measured by the emitter):

f = c/L

An observer on the ground measures the frequency to be f'=f(1+gh/c^2) (confirmed by Pound and Rebka), the speed of light to be c' and the wavelength to be L':

f' = c'/L'

Crucial questions:

c' = ?

L' = ?

Newton's emission theory of light:

c' = c(1+gh/c^2)

L' = c'/f' = L

Einstein's general relativity:

c' = c(1+2gh/c^2)

L' = c'/f' L

The increase in wavelength (L'L) implied by general relativity is obviously absurd, which means that the Pound-Rebka experiment has confirmed Newton and refuted Einstein.

The only defence of general relativity consists in hiding the prediction c'=c(1+2gh/c^2). In the schizophrenic atmosphere of Divine Albert's world this defence is quite successful. Yet the collapse is unavoidable.

Pentcho Valev