EINSTEIN'S HOAXES

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Divine Albert: "Experience has led to the conviction that, on the one hand, the principle of relativity holds true, and that on the other hand the velocity of transmission of light in vacuo has to be considered equal to a constant c. By uniting these two postulates we obtained the law of transformation for the rectangular co-ordinates x, y, z and the time t of the events which constitute the processes of nature. In this connection we did not obtain the Galilei transformation, but, differing from classical mechanics, the Lorentz transformation."

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Divine Albert: "In one of the most notable of these attempts Michelson devised a method which appears as though it must be decisive. Imagine two mirrors so arranged on a rigid body that the reflecting surfaces face each other. A ray of light requires a perfectly definite time T to pass from one mirror to the other and back again, if the whole system be at rest with respect to the aether. It is found by calculation, however, that a slightly different time T' is required for this process, if the body, together with the mirrors, be moving relatively to the aether. (...) ...the experiment gave a negative result - a fact very perplexing to physicists. Lorentz and FitzGerald rescued the theory from this difficulty by assuming that the motion of the body relative to the aether produces a contraction of the body in the direction of motion, the amount of contraction being just sufficient to compensate for the difference in time mentioned above."

An imaginary creature called "Honest Albert" would have written:

Honest Albert: "Experience should have led to the conviction that, on the one hand, the principle of relativity holds true, and that on the other hand the velocity of transmission of light in vacuo has to be considered equal to c+v, where v is the speed of the emitter relative to the observer. By uniting these two postulates we obtain the law of transformation for the rectangular co-ordinates x, y, z and the time t of the events which constitute the processes of nature. In this connection we obtain the Galilei transformation, but, differing from classical mechanics, Divine Albert, that hoaxer, found it profitable to impose the Lorentz transformation."

Honest Albert: "In one of the most notable of these attempts Michelson devised a method which appears as though it must be decisive. Imagine two mirrors so arranged on a rigid body that the reflecting surfaces face each other. A ray of light requires a perfectly definite time T to pass from one mirror to the other and back again, if the whole system be at rest with respect to the aether. It is found by calculation based on Newton's emission theory of light that the same time T'=T is required for this process, if the body, together with the mirrors, be moving relatively to the aether. (...) ....the experiment gave a negative result (T'=T) as predicted by Newton's emission theory of light - a fact very perplexing to physicists because they had forgotten or did not wish to remember the emission theory. Lorentz and FitzGerald rescued their false theory from this difficulty by assuming that the motion of the body relative to the aether produces a contraction of the body in the direction of motion, the amount of contraction being just sufficient to compensate for the difference in time predicted by the false theory."

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