IF JOHN MICHELL HAD KNOWN SPECIAL RELATIVITY

In Einsteiniana's schizophrenic world, "the higher energy of the
photon after it falls can be equivalently ascribed to the slower
running of clocks deeper in the gravitational potential well":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_o...ral_relativity
"Experimental verification of gravitational redshift using terrestrial
sources took several decades, because it is difficult to find clocks
(to measure time dilation) or sources of electromagnetic radiation (to
measure redshift) with a frequency that is known well enough that the
effect can be accurately measured. It was confirmed experimentally for
the first time in 1960 using measurements of the change in wavelength
of gamma-ray photons generated with the Mössbauer effect, which
generates radiation with a very narrow line width. The experiment,
performed by Pound and Rebka and later improved by Pound and Snyder,
is called the Pound-Rebka experiment. The accuracy of the gamma-ray
measurements was typically 1%. The blueshift of a falling photon can
be found by assuming it has an equivalent mass based on its frequency
E = hf (where h is Planck's constant) along with E = mc2, a result of
special relativity. Such simple derivations ignore the fact that in
general relativity the experiment compares clock rates, rather than
energies. In other words, the "higher energy" of the photon after it
falls can be equivalently ascribed to the slower running of clocks
deeper in the gravitational potential well."

This ascription of the higher energy of the photon to the slower
running of clocks is extremely exciting for believers. Any time
Einsteiniana's high priests convert energy into clock rate, believers
fiercely sing "Divine Einstein" and "Yes we all believe in relativity,
relativity, relativity". In the end the ecstasy gets uncontrollable:
believers tumble to the floor, start tearing their clothes and go into
convulsions.

Pentcho Valev