COSMIC OR EINSTEINIAN CONSPIRACY?

Vanderbilt conspirator Robert Scherrer:

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http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1...-limit-042715/
Robert Scherrer: "So far, so good. We have an intuitive sense that we can add and subtract speeds like this. But here's the problem. When scientists were codifying the laws that explained electricity and magnetism, a bonus popped out of the equations: They predicted that we ought to see some sort of radiation travelling at about 186,000 miles a second. And of course, scientists had already seen this radiation: It was called light! But there seemed to be no way to get light to travel at any other speed. The equations gave the same speed for light, without providing any hint that the speed would be different if you were moving toward or away from the motion of the light. Most scientists thought that there was some sort of problem with our understanding of the way that light propagates. After all, the theory that predicted the existence of light was only a few decades old, so maybe there was something missing from it. But Einstein took a much more radical position. He suggested that our laws for adding and subtracting speeds, which physicists had taken for granted for hundreds of years, must be wrong. In fact, he postulated that the speed of light had to be the same no matter how fast you moved toward or away from the light!"

Robert Scherrer is blatantly lying - Einstein "postulated that the speed of light had to be the same no matter how fast you moved toward or away from the light" for other reasons, not because Maxwell's equations had suggested so. In fact, Maxwell's 19th century electromagnetic theory had predicted that the speed of light varied with the speed of the observer:

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Chasing.pdf
John Norton: "That [Maxwell's] theory allows light to slow and be frozen in the frame of reference of a sufficiently rapidly moving observer."

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Gabrielle Bonnet, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon: "Les équations de Maxwell font en particulier intervenir une constante, c, qui est la vitesse de la lumière dans le vide. Par un changement de référentiel classique, si c est la vitesse de la lumière dans le vide dans un premier référentiel, et si on se place désormais dans un nouveau référentiel en translation par rapport au premier à la vitesse constante v, la lumière devrait désormais aller à la vitesse c-v si elle se déplace dans la direction et le sens de v, et à la vitesse c+v si elle se déplace dans le sens contraire."

http://www.printsasia.com/book/a-bri...ing-0553380168
Stephen Hawking: "Maxwell's theory predicted that radio or light waves should travel at a certain fixed speed. But Newton's theory had got rid of the idea of absolute rest, so if light was supposed to travel at a fixed speed, one would have to say what that fixed speed was to be measured relative to. It was therefore suggested that there was a substance called the "ether" that was present everywhere, even in "empty" space. Light waves should travel through the ether as sound waves travel through air, and their speed should therefore be relative to the ether. Different observers, moving relative to the ether, would see light coming toward them at different speeds, but light's speed relative to the ether would remain fixed."

Pentcho Valev