Re: What become the LT transforms if the speed of light depends on the observers' velocity ?


<rambus2005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1157140179.127129.66600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Koobee Wublee wrote:



I still don't see a connection between Einstein's derivation of
velocity composition and the relativistic index of refraction.

Do you think there is really such a quantity called relativistic index
of refraction? Dr. Cahill is the only one actively claiming so. It
looks like Dr. Roberts has already claimed so thing six years ago.
That is before Dr. Cahill. Wielding with this relativistic index of
refraction, it opens the door to determine one's absolute speed.
Now, I understand why Dr. Roberts attacked Dr. Cahill's experimental
interpretations but not on Dr. Cahill's claim of this relativistic
index of refraction.

Cahill simply got his equations wrong. He doesn't understand how the
speed composition law applies to refringent materials. Grade F-

And to advertise his tripe, Cahill came here disguised as a "Peter":
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/5ffaa8752917f7bd?
What a dope.

Dirk Vdm


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