Re: A modification of Fizeau's toothed-wheel experiment

From: Androcles (androc1es_at_nospamblueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:13:18 GMT

"The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@aurigae.athghost7038suus.net> wrote in
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| In sci.physics.relativity, EjP
| <nospam@hackers.are.bad>
| wrote
| on Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:09:56 -0500
| <ch08cp$mbb$1@info4.fnal.gov>:
| > The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
| >> This is probably a dumb question, but I'm curious, and
| >> this looks extremely simple to perform, at least for a
| >> well-equipped lab. Also, Androcles has stipulated that
| >> he has seen evidence, using a computer simulation and
| >> stellar observations, that c' = c+v, and I'd like at
| >> least have someone verify that SR would preclude that,
| >> using the experiment below. :-)
| >>
| >
| > Androcles is a retard, who is at least a century
| > out of touch with experimental data.

Once again you get no answer. :-)

|
| I'm also probably out of touch with the data; mostly
| because my field is commercial computer software.
|
| >
| >> A disc with teeth spins on a shaft, as vibrationless
| >> as possible. The teeth are reflective. A light beam
| >> is angled tangent to the spinning disc, and it, together
| >> with a companion beam reflected off a stationary mirror,
| >> are reflected into an interferometer.
| >>
| >
| > The idea is good in principle, but why do this when you
| > can Compton scatter photons off of charged particle
| > beams, which are moving at a large fraction of the speed of
| > light? This is done all the time.
| >
| > -E
|
| Is it? That sounds even more interesting. :-) I do have a
| picture of a particle beam -- it's in one of my physics
| books.
|
| The idea certainly sounds extremely straightforward,

Really? I wonder how you'd locate a photon as it crosses the start line,
then again locate the same photon as it crosses the finish line.
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle might have something to say about
that.
EjP is a retard who hasn't even begun to think through the problems.
Androcles.

 and
| one could probably even get a neutron beam with a little
| work, and scatter light off that -- whether that would
| be useful or not or show different results from a
| charged particle beam, I can't say.
|
| *picks up a copy of "How to Miss The Obvious", by I. M. Blind* :-)
|
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