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Old October 5th 15, 08:38 AM posted to sci.astro
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In 1887 the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment was compatible with the variable speed of light predicted by Newton's emission theory of light, and incompatible with the constant (independent of the speed of the light source) speed of light predicted by the ether theory. Then, in an oversimplified and somewhat caricatural scenario, FitzGerald, Lorentz and Einstein asked the following question:

What should we do in order that the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment becomes compatible with the constant (independent of the speed of the light source) speed of light and incompatible with the variable speed of light predicted by Newton's emission theory of light?

The answer FitzGerald, Lorentz and Einstein found was:

We should introduce "contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations".

The quotation "contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations" is from Banesh Hoffmann's version of the story:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JokgnS1JtmMC
"Relativity and Its Roots" by Banesh Hoffmann, p.92: "There are various remarks to be made about this second principle. For instance, if it is so obvious, how could it turn out to be part of a revolution - especially when the first principle is also a natural one? Moreover, if light consists of particles, as Einstein had suggested in his paper submitted just thirteen weeks before this one, the second principle seems absurd: A stone thrown from a speeding train can do far more damage than one thrown from a train at rest; the speed of the particle is not independent of the motion of the object emitting it. And if we take light to consist of particles and assume that these particles obey Newton's laws, they will conform to Newtonian relativity and thus automatically account for the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment without recourse to contracting lengths, local time, or Lorentz transformations. Yet, as we have seen, Einstein resisted the temptation to account for the null result in terms of particles of light and simple, familiar Newtonian ideas, and introduced as his second postulate something that was more or less obvious when thought of in terms of waves in an ether. If it was so obvious, though, why did he need to state it as a principle? Because, having taken from the idea of light waves in the ether the one aspect that he needed, he declared early in his paper, to quote his own words, that "the introduction of a 'luminiferous ether' will prove to be superfluous."

Nowadays ninety-nine percent of the Einsteinians ("later writers" in John Norton's text below) teach that the Michelson-Morley experiment gloriously confirmed the constant (independent of the speed of the light source) speed of light predicted by the ether theory and advanced by Einstein as his 1905 second postulate, and humiliatingly refuted the variable speed of light predicted by Newton's emission theory of light:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/1743/2/Norton.pdf
John Norton: "In addition to his work as editor of the Einstein papers in finding source material, Stachel assembled the many small clues that reveal Einstein's serious consideration of an emission theory of light; and he gave us the crucial insight that Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost universally use it as support for the light postulate of special relativity. Even today, this point needs emphasis. The Michelson-Morley experiment is fully compatible with an emission theory of light that contradicts the light postulate."

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Old October 6th 15, 08:22 AM posted to sci.astro
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FitzGerald, Lorentz and Poincaré adhered to a false but still rational physical pictu a UNILATERAL length contraction caused by the interaction of the moving object with the ether. By introducing mutual length contraction and mutual time dilation Einstein actually killed (rationality in) science:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JokgnS1JtmMC
Banesh Hoffmann, Relativity and Its Roots, p. 106: "The effect is mutual. Each of us finds the other's lengths in the direction of our relative motion contracted. When FitzGerald and Lorentz and Poincaré spoke of a contraction, they thought of it as arising from motion through the ether. Undoubtedly they silently assumed that someone at rest in the ether would find that moving lengths were contracted but that a moving observer would find that lengths at rest in the ether were expanded compared with his own. And the even greater silence of these scientists about the slowing of clocks shows that in spite of their mathematical equations being the same as Einstein's, the idea of a reciprocal slowing of clocks was foreign to their views."

MUTUAL time dilation means that in no scenario an observer can see another observer's clock running ahead of his own clock. Only running behind can be observed, and not in an absolute sense at that: I see your clock running behind mine, you see mine running behind yours, and our disagreement is essential - it cannot be settled.

So mutual time dilation, although a valid consequence of Einstein's 1905 postulates, is an impotent concept, and in his 1905 paper Einstein found it profitable to violate it and suggest that the moving observer sees the stationary clock running AHEAD of the moving clock - a breathtaking idiocy that the gullible world has been worshiping ever since:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES, A. Einstein, 1905: "From this there ensues the following peculiar consequence. If at the points A and B of K there are stationary clocks which, viewed in the stationary system, are synchronous; and if the clock at A is moved with the velocity v along the line AB to B, then on its arrival at B the two clocks no longer synchronize, but the clock moved from A to B lags behind the other which has remained at B by tv^2/2c^2 (up to magnitudes of fourth and higher order), t being the time occupied in the journey from A to B."

http://plus.maths.org/issue37/featur...ein/index.html
John Barrow FRS: "Einstein restored faith in the unintelligibility of science. Everyone knew that Einstein had done something important in 1905 (and again in 1915) but almost nobody could tell you exactly what it was. When Einstein was interviewed for a Dutch newspaper in 1921, he attributed his mass appeal to the mystery of his work for the ordinary person: "Does it make a silly impression on me, here and yonder, about my theories of which they cannot understand a word? I think it is funny and also interesting to observe. I am sure that it is the mystery of non-understanding that appeals to them...it impresses them, it has the colour and the appeal of the mysterious." Relativity was a fashionable notion. It promised to sweep away old absolutist notions and refurbish science with modern ideas. In art and literature too, revolutionary changes were doing away with old conventions and standards. All things were being made new. Einstein's relativity suited the mood. Nobody got very excited about Einstein's brownian motion or his photoelectric effect but relativity promised to turn the world inside out."

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