"How Does Light "Know" How Fast to Travel?"

"How Does Light "Know" How Fast to Travel?"

One of the basic beliefs of modern physics is that the
velocity of light is the same wherever and whenever it is measured. It is,
in
the language of physics, invariant. To illustrate this understanding, let us
consider an example in which a rocket ship passes Mars on its way towards
Earth.
On the rocket ship and on Mars are two radio transmitters arranged so that,
at
the instant the ship passes Mars and transmitters are at the same distance
from
Earth, both transmitters send a signal towards Earth. Along the route, test
stations observe the passage of the signals and report that the signals pass
each station simultaneously, exactly in accordance with the requirements of
Special Relativity. (Radio signals differ from light signals only in their
frequency. Relativistically, their behavior is identical..)

This observation presents no problem if the radio signals is
are waves propagating through a medium (e.g.- the Aether) as sound does
though
air. The velocity of a wave propagating through a medium is the velocity of
propagation of that wave though the medium. The velocity of propagation of
the
sound of a gunshot is independent of the velocity of the gun while the
velocity
of the bullet is not. The observation presents a difficulty, however, if we
regard the photons which makeup the radio wave as particles which are
emitted
from the source and travel ballistically to the target. Such would seem to
be
the concept of the propagation of light when one considers the apparent
banishment of the Aether following the acceptance of Special Relativity. If
there is no medium, then the observably same velocity of the two radio waves
could only occur if the transmitter on the rocket ship had measured its
velocity
with respect to the transmitter on Mars and adjusted the velocity of its
transmitted signal so as to cause the two signals to travel together.

The side by side propagation of the radio signals presents no
problem if one accepts that they are a vibrational disturbance traveling
through
a medium (e.g. - the Aether), but if there is no medium it would seem to
require
that some sort of "magic" be involved. The presence of magic in physical
processes is more difficult for the writer to accept than is the existence
of
the classical Aether. This conclusion is particularly true since the Aether
has
been shown to be conventionally unobservable but has never been shown to be
non-existent. The latter conclusion results from the fact that physicists
have
jumped from an unproven assertion to a foregone conclusion. Dr. Einstein did
warn that the non-existence of the Aether had not been proven, what had been
proven was that it was not necessary for computations of relativistic
effects.

The source material for this posting may be found in
http://einsteinhoax/hoax.htm ("The Einstein Hoax" {1997});
http://einsteinhoax/gravity.htm; ("Gravity" {1987}); and
http://einsteinhoax/relcor.htm ("Corrections to Special Relativity" {1997}).
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