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INCONSTANT SPEED OF LIGHT IN A VACUUM
http://rt.com/news/225879-light-speed-slow-photons/
"Physicists manage to slow down light inside vacuum (...) ...even now the light is no longer in the mask, it's just the propagating in free space - the speed is still slow. (...) "This finding shows unambiguously that the propagation of light can be slowed below the commonly accepted figure of 299,792,458 metres per second, even when travelling in air or vacuum," co-author Romero explains in the University of Glasgow press release." http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015.../1191422035480 "The speed of light is a limit, not a constant - that's what researchers in Glasgow, Scotland, say. A group of them just proved that light can be slowed down, permanently." Einsteinians: http://img.sadistic.pl/pics/c990a23c6a83.png Pentcho Valev |
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INCONSTANT SPEED OF LIGHT IN A VACUUM
When an observer starts moving towards a light source with (small) speed v, the frequency he measures shifts from f=c/λ to f'=(c+v)/λ, where c is the speed of the waves relative to a stationary observer and λ is the wavelength.
Question: Why does the frequency shift from f=c/λ to f'=(c+v)/λ? Answer 1 (fatal for Einstein's relativity): Because the speed of the waves relative to the observer 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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg7O4rtlwEE "Doppler effect - when an observer moves towards a stationary source. ...the velocity of the wave relative to the observer is faster than that when it is still." http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teachin...ml/node41.html "Thus, the moving observer sees a wave possessing the same wavelength (...) but a different frequency (...) to that seen by the stationary observer." http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/211-sp...9_doppler.html "We will focus on sound waves in describing the Doppler effect, but it works for other waves too. (...) Let's say you, the observer, now move toward the source with velocity vO. You encounter more waves per unit time than you did before. Relative to you, the waves travel at a higher speed: v'=v+vO. The frequency of the waves you detect is higher, and is given by: f'=v'/λ=(v+vO)/λ." Pentcho Valev |
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