"How Does Light 'Know' How Fast to Travel?"

On 22 Sep, 16:35, John Kennaugh wrote in sci.physics.relativity:
Alex wrote:
The modern interpretation of SR is that the vacuum energy mediates
electromagnetism. There is an extraordinary Russian paper on SR and
modern quantum field theory that explains this:

http://uk.arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/p...708.0929v1.pdf

It will take me a while to study it but he does at least make an honest
appraisal of the problem :

"to take as a postulate that the speed of light is constant relative to
changes in reference frame is to assume an apparent absurdity. It goes
against common sense. No wonder, thinks a student, that we can derive
other absurdities, such as time dilation and length contraction, from
the premises"

That is a quotation. The author of the wisdom is a professor in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern Arizona University,
Ralph Baierlein, who wants to decrease the absurdity of time dilation
and length contraction by reintroducing Einstein's original
formulation of the false second (light) postulate:

http://www.physorg.com/news11829.html

In other words, Baierlein is just one of the numerous shopkeepers in
Einstein criminal cult selling a dead parrot and claiming that the
parrot is "pining for the fjords":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H6DSoqZz_s
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/py...ead-parrot.htm

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