THE SIMPLEST REFUTATION OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/roger/PHY.../lecture18.pdf
Roger Barlow, Professor of Particle Physics: "The Doppler effect - changes in frequencies when sources or observers are in motion - is familiar to anyone who has stood at the roadside and watched (and listened) to the cars go by. It applies to all types of wave, not just sound. (...) Moving Observer. Now suppose the source is fixed but the observer is moving towards the source, with speed v. In time t, ct/lambda waves pass a fixed point. A moving point adds another vt/lambda. So f'=(c+v)/lambda."

Roger Barlow offers an interpretation valid for "all types of wave" (light waves included): as the observer starts moving towards the wave source with speed v, the speed of the waves relative to him shifts from c to c'=c+v, and this causes the frequency he measures to shift from f=c/lambda to f'=c'/lambda=(c+v)/lambda. The interpretation is fatal for special relativity of course.

Pentcho Valev

A similar refutation:

http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/doppler
Albert Einstein Institute: "The frequency of a wave-like signal - such as sound or light - depends on the movement of the sender and of the receiver. This is known as the Doppler effect. (...) Here is an animation of the receiver moving towards the source: (...) By observing the two indicator lights, you can see for yourself that, once more, there is a blue-shift - the pulse frequency measured at the receiver is somewhat higher than the frequency with which the pulses are sent out. This time, the distances between subsequent pulses are not affected, but still there is a frequency shift: As the receiver moves towards each pulse, the time until pulse and receiver meet up is shortened. In this particular animation, which has the receiver moving towards the source at one third the speed of the pulses themselves, four pulses are received in the time it takes the source to emit three pulses."

That is, the motion of the observer cannot change the wavelength ("the distances between subsequent pulses are not affected") and accordingly the speed of light as measured by the receiver is (4/3)c.

Pentcho Valev

If v is small enough, both the following interpretation and the result f'=(c+v)/lambda are correct for light waves, irrespectively of whether the relativistic time dilation is taken into account:

http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/roger/PHY.../lecture18.pdf
"Now suppose the source is fixed but the observer is moving towards the source, with speed v. In time t, ct/lambda waves pass a fixed point. A moving point adds another vt/lambda. So f'=(c+v)/lambda."

Einsteinians who disagree will have to give the correct alternative interpretation and replace f'=(c+v)/lambda with the correct result. In the absence of any alternative, Einsteinians will have to stop singing "Divine Einstein" and "Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity": the above interpretation implies that the speed of the light waves relative to the observer shifts from c to c'=c+v, in violation of special relativity.

Pentcho Valev