FROZEN LIGHT IN DIVINE ALBERT'S WORLD

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Chasing.pdf
Albert Einstein quoted by John Norton: "...a paradox upon which I had already hit at the age of sixteen: If I pursue a beam of light with the velocity c (velocity of light in a vacuum), I should observe such a beam of light as an electromagnetic field at rest though spatially oscillating. There seems to be no such thing, however, neither on the basis of experience nor according to Maxwell's equations."

John Norton knows why young Albert was unable to see frozen light. The faster Albert ran after the light waves, the longer the wavelength looked to him. If Albert had run against the waves, he would have seen the wavelength contracting:

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teachi...ved/index.html
John Norton: "Here's a light wave and an observer. If the observer were to hurry towards the source of the light, the observer would now pass wavecrests more frequently than the resting observer. That would mean that moving observer would find the frequency of the light to have increased (AND CORRESPONDINGLY FOR THE WAVELENGTH - THE DISTANCE BETWEEN CRESTS - TO HAVE DECREASED)."

Wavelength elongation and wavelength contraction are fundamental, although somewhat clandestine, tenets of special relativity. They are physically absurd but without them the speed of light (relative to the observer) would vary with the speed of the observer, Einsteinians would be kicked out of universities, their children would go hungry in the streets... No need for such tragedy.

Pentcho Valev