Re: Basics Series I: NEWTON, MAXWELL, EINSTEIN HOAXES - REVEALED!

From: Laurel Amberdine (circle_at_mtco.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: 6 Feb 2005 02:14:22 GMT

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:59:54 GMT, Tom Capizzi <etianshrdlu@verizon.net> wrote:
> "jem" <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote in message news:oVbNd.41031$bu.1155@fed1read06...
>> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>>
>>> In sci.physics, PDraper
>>> <pdraper@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote
>>> on Sat, 05 Feb 2005 06:20:00 -0500
>>> <BE2A1610.2BB6%pdraper@yahoo.com>:
>>>
>>>>I am laying out the fundamentals of a new theory which
>>>>replaces the so-called Standard Model, and which
>>>>demonstrates that Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein were
>>>>either fools or hucksters.
>>>>================================
>>>>Point 1:
>>>>The sun is clearly red in the morning and undeniably red in
>>>>the evening, but there is no such red-shifting visible at
>>>>noon. This is because the sun at noon is directly overhead
>>>>and passing horizontally over the face of the earth from east
>>>>to west. There is no component of the sun's velocity at noon
>>>>that is pointing toward the earth (except possibly at the
>>>>spring equinox, when the sun is approaching the earth to make
>>>>it warmer, but that's a small effect that will be ignored here).
>>>>There is thus no red-shifting at noon.
>>>>
>>>>In the morning, the sun is approaching the earth from the east
>>>>with velocity v. Thus, the speed of light coming from the sun
>>>>is c+v. For a wave, (wave speed) = (frequency) x (wavelength).
>>>>Since the wave speed is higher, and the frequency is the same, the
>>>>wavelength must go up. Longer wavelength means a shift to the red.

<snip>
>>> [1] The Earth *is* approaching and receding from the Sun,
>>> as the perihelion and aphelion of the Earth's orbit
>>> are 1.475 * 10^11 m and 1.526 * 10^11 m (0.983 to 1.017
>>> AU), but the relativistic correction is ridiculously
>>> small, even were the light source parked on the Earth's
>>> orbit and the Earth hurtling toward it at a velocity of
>>> 30 km/s = 10^-4 c! [*] (The gamma factor is 1/sqrt(1 -
>>> (10^-4)^2) = 1 + 5*10^-9.) The rotation of the Earth
>>> does bring the sun closer at a velocity of about 232
>>> m/s on the equator but that's only 7.73 * 10^-6 c.

<snip>

>> Brilliant analysis. You thoroughly debunked the first part of his new
>> theory. Why don't you show hime what's wrong the other parts too? I'm
>> sure he'll appreciate it. I know I will.
>
> Is everybody in on the gag, or do you people actually think PD
> was serious?

Pfui. Look at those well-formed sentences, full of rational punctutation
and correctly spelled words. You don't think they're really fooling
anyone?

Have to try harder next time, guys. :) 

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