THE INCREDIBLE VULNERABILITY OF EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY

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

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ler_static.gif

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

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ector_blue.gif

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

Answer 1 (fatal for Einstein's relativity): Because the speed of the pulses relative to the receiver shifts from c to c' = c+v.

Answer 2 (possibly saving Einstein's relativity): Because...

There is no reasonable statement that could become Answer 2.

Pentcho Valev

In my previous posting I said that no reasonable statement can become Answer 2 and save Einstein's relativity. Yet there is an idiotic one that Einsteinians advance sometimes (rarely indeed - it sounds too idiotic even in the schizophrenic atmosphere of Divine Albert's world). So I am resubmitting my posting, with the idiotic statement added:

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

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ler_static.gif

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

http://www.einstein-online.info/imag...ector_blue.gif

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

Answer 1 (fatal for Einstein's relativity): Because the speed of the pulses relative to the receiver shifts from c to c' = c+v.

Answer 2 (idiotic but saves Einstein's relativity): Because the motion of the receiver changes the distance between subsequent pulses - the distance shifts from d to d' = cd/(c+v).

Here is an analogous change of the wavelength that can only occur in Einstein's schizophrenic world:

http://lewebpedagogique.com/physique...8doppler_p.gif

Pentcho Valev

The deranged Einsteinian demonstrates how both the speed of light (relative to the detector) and the frequency vary with the speed of the detector and then explains that only the frequency varies (the speed of the light doesn't):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=EVzUyE2oD1w
Dr Ricardo Eusebi: "f'=f(1+v/c). Light frequency is relative to the observer. The velocity is not though. The velocity is the same in all the reference frames."

In Einstein's schizophrenic world the old principle of Ignatius of Loyola is valid and Einsteinians obey it:

Ignatius of Loyola: "That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black."

Pentcho Valev