Re: Why is the Speed Of Light Constant?


"G" <gehan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Androcles
|
| We are discussing the speed of light.
| If we are on the embankment and we measure the speed of a "ray of
| light" inside the train, we think we
| may end up with c+v. OK. However we cannot end up with c+v in any
| circumstances (AE's assumption) because
| light travels at the same speed no matter who measures it.

So Einstein was an idiot.


|
| If we measure a bullet form a gun fired inside the train, can we also
| not say that the speed of the bullet is not s+v
| since the gun is only able to give a velocity s to the bullet?

Of course.


| We will
| be seeing an ordinary bullet out of an ordinary gun coming
| out faster under these conditions ( nothing physical has changed from
| the gun at rest) Is't it consistent to say that we
| we must alwasy measure the speed of a bullet coming from a specified
| type of gun as the veolcity s or the laws o physics
| will be violated?
|
| Aren't these two arguments equivalent?
|
| G

If you want to know what REALLY happens when you add the speed
of light to the speed of the source,
Observation:
http://www.britastro.org/vss/gifc/00918-ck.gif
Explanation:
http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/sekerin.htm (fig 3)

Experiment:
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Copernicus.exe

Androcles.



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