Re: To Androcles and Henry: Ballistic Doppler Shift Equation

From: Paul B. Andersen (paul.b.andersen_at_deletethishia.no)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:23:46 +0100

Henri Wilson wrote:
>
> As to wavelength, as you pointed out it doesn't change. A one metre wavelength
> in the source frame will remain 1 metre in the moving observer frame. That
> means successive wave crests will simultaneously lie adjacent to the ends of a
> 1 metre rod in both frames.
>
> So, in both frames, the wavecrests of the same light passing over identical
> gratings, at grazing angle, would have a similar relationship with the lines on
> the grating. It would appear that a grating should NOT reveal doppler shift
> according to the ballistic theory. However, when you consider light coming onto
> the grating at an oblique angle, you will see that this angle itself changes in
> the moving observer frame.
>
> I have not resolved the difference between this problem and that of a prism
> which I believe is 'frequency sensitive'.
> We have no idea what frequency means, when applied to single photons (if such
> exist)
> I think that by looking at this whole subject from the ballistic point of view,
> we might actually discover something important.

Indeed.
Yet another falsification of the ballistic theory.

Paul

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