Re: The velocity of light going pass a moving train.

"Gerald L. O'Barr" <globarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Subject: Re: The velocity of light going pass a
moving train.
[snip reply to sue's silly qquestions :)}

To repeat: The angle that is measured in the
frame of the track is exactly classical,

No .. it is not

and it does
not matter how fast the train is moving.

Even in the classical case, it matters. If the light is vertical in the
train FoR, it will not be vertical in the track FoR, no matter what non-zero
speed the train is moving in the x direction.

If you meant that the velocity does not make the result different from
classical predictions, then you are wrong.

The correct
vector analyses is the simple absolute velocity of
light, c, and the absolute velocity of the train, v,
and what these vectors produce is what will be
measured in the track frame.

And the result is different to what classical aberration would give you.

The only problem is in
knowing the exact angle of the light, and this
certainly is not hard to know, as it has been
correctly stated.

The only problem is the dodo who thinks relativity makes the light aberrate
in the opposite direction. Relativity exaggerates the classical aberration
... to the point that is the train were travelling at c, the light would be
aberrated to be at a 0 deg angle (ie it would be seen from the track as
travelling horizontally in the same direction as the train .. whereas
classical aberration would say it travels at 45 deg.


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