Experiments Confirming Two Incompatible Theories

The Michelson-Morley experiment confirms Newton's emission theory of
light if:

1) the speed of light DOES depend on the speed of the light source.

2) a long train CANNOT be trapped inside a short tunnel, a 80m long
pole CANNOT be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug CANNOT be both
dead and alive.

The Michelson-Morley experiment confirms Einstein's special relativity
if:

1) the speed of light DOES NOT depend on the speed of the light
source.

2) a long train CAN be trapped inside a short tunnel, a 80m long pole
CAN be trapped inside a 40m long barn and a bug CAN be both dead and
alive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSRIy...related&search

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...barn_pole.html
"These are the props. You own a barn, 40m long, with automatic doors
at either end, that can be opened and closed simultaneously by a
switch. You also have a pole, 80m long, which of course won't fit in
the barn. Now someone takes the pole and tries to run (at nearly the
speed of light) through the barn with the pole horizontal. Special
Relativity (SR) says that a moving object is contracted in the
direction of motion: this is called the Lorentz Contraction. So, if
the pole is set in motion lengthwise, then it will contract in the
reference frame of a stationary observer.....So, as the pole passes
through the barn, there is an instant when it is completely within the
barn. At that instant, you close both doors simultaneously, with your
switch. Of course, you open them again pretty quickly, but at least
momentarily you had the contracted pole shut up in your barn. The
runner emerges from the far door unscathed.....If the doors are kept
shut the rod will obviously smash into the barn door at one end. If
the door withstands this the leading end of the rod will come to rest
in the frame of reference of the stationary observer. There can be no
such thing as a rigid rod in relativity so the trailing end will not
stop immediately and the rod will be compressed beyond the amount it
was Lorentz contracted. If it does not explode under the strain and it
is sufficiently elastic it will come to rest and start to spring back
to its natural shape but since it is too big for the barn the other
end is now going to crash into the back door and the rod will be
trapped in a compressed state inside the barn."

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.../bugrivet.html
"The bug-rivet paradox is a variation on the twin paradox and is
similar to the pole-barn paradox.....The end of the rivet hits the
bottom of the hole before the head of the rivet hits the wall. So it
looks like the bug is squashed.....All this is nonsense from the bug's
point of view. The rivet head hits the wall when the rivet end is just
0.35 cm down in the hole! The rivet doesn't get close to the
bug....The paradox is not resolved."

Pentcho Valev

The Pound-Rebka experiment confirms Newton's emission theory of light
if:

1) photons accelerate in a gravitational field as cannonballs do.

2) there is no gravitational time dilation.

The Pound-Rebka experiment confirms a fragment (not other fragments)
of Einstein's inconsistent theory of relativity if:

1) photons do not accelerate in a gravitational field.

2) there is gravitational time dilation:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/book.html
Chapter 14: "The equivalence principle has a striking consequence
concerning the behavior of clocks in a gravitational field. It implies
that higher clocks run faster than lower clocks. If you put a watch on
top of a tower, and then stand on the ground, you will see the watch
on the tower tick faster than an identical watch on your wrist. When
you take the watch down and compare it to the one on your wrist, it
will show more time elapsed."

Pentcho Valev

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Another Experiment Confirming Two Incompatible Theories:

Experiment:
Watch a fly on the table.
Make a sudden movement.
The fly takes off.
Catch the fly and rip its wings off.
Put the fly on the table.
Make a sudden movement.
The fly does not react.

Theory 1:
Flies see with their eyes and use their wings to fly.

Theory 2:
Flies see with their wings.
Ripping off the wings turns them blind.

Dirk Vdm