What does the Doppler effect say about light's motion?

[derek w]

In the case of a picket fence the posts are spaced longitudinally in the same direction as the fence,each post being a sequential step from one to the next.

Light oscillates at 90 degrees to the direction of travel,and using the fence post analogy all the posts would arrive at the same time,not sequentially.

Edited October 12, 2012 by derek w

[yknot]

 

Except that light is not a fence post. The speed of light

 

is invarient in all inertial frames, regardless of theirrelative

 

motion.

 

 

 

You do not seem to have heard about Relativity.

 

 

 

 

OK, I resent the blatant insult.

 

 

 

From someone who cannot even spell invariant,

 

I am receiving an insult?

 

 

 

Please.

 

 

 

This will be my final post in this forum.

 

(Everybody clap loudly!)

 

 

 

But I will leave a parting shot that cannot be denied.

 

 

 

No one has every correctly measured any speed, much

 

less light's speed.

 

 

 

If you fail to grasp this, then consider the following simplefacts:

 

 

 

(1) No one can prove that their clocks are not intrinsicallyslowed.

 

(Intrinsic slowing is the same as twins and triplets aging

 

differently. It is physical and not reciprocal.)

 

(This alone makes all speed measurements invalid)

 

 

 

(2) No one can prove that their rulers are not intrinsically

 

contracted.

 

(This adds to the above problem)

 

 

 

(3) No one can prove that their clocks are correctly or

 

absolutely synchronous.

 

(This invalidates all one-way speed measurements,

 

from the speed of a bug relative to a log to the speed

 

of light.)

 

 

 

If you cannot validly measure the speed of a freekin

 

bug relative to a log, then your physics is totally

 

screwed up. Face the facts.

 

 

 

I'm serious, dudes.

 

Very serious.

 

 

 

PS> ACG52 presented zero proof of light's invariance one-way

 

speed. He cannot because there is no proof.

 

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Edited October 12, 2012 by yknot