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http://student.fizika.org/~jsisko/Kn...Morin/CH13.PDF
David Morin (pp. 2-4): "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. (...) As seen in frame S, when the receiver and a particular pulse meet, the next pulse is a distance ct_s behind. The receiver and this next pulse then travel toward each other at relative speed c+v (as measured by someone in S). (...) This GR time-dilation effect was first measured at Harvard by Pound and Rebka in 1960. They sent gamma rays up a 20m tower and measured the redshift (that is, the decrease in frequency) at the top." Question: What is the relative speed of the receiver and "the next pulse" as measured BY THE RECEIVER? Answer given by Newton's emission theory of light: c+v Answer given by Einstein's general relativity: c+2v Neither answer is compatible with the prediction that "when you take the watch down and compare it to the one on your wrist, it will show more time elapsed". Moreover, it can be shown that both answers contradict Einstein's 1905 constant-speed-of-light postulate. Given the formula: (frequency) = (speed of light)/(wavelength) the Pound-Rebka experiment confirms the answer c+v given by Newton's emission theory of light and refutes the answer c+2v given by Einstein's general relativity. David Morin's text referred to above reappears as Chapter 14 in: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/book.html Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions David Morin, Cambridge University Press Pentcho Valev |
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