Re: Experimental Evidence for Special Relativity



John Kennaugh wrote:

Eric Gisse wrote:

On Oct 10, 4:49 pm, doug <x...@xxxxxx> wrote:
[...]

Henri doesn't believe that the angle of incidence is equal to the
angle of reflection?


Why should he?

Hint - The waves of Maxwell's wave in aether theory do not physically exist.
There is no aether required. Why do you think this?

There is no aether for them to be waves in. Light does not behave
in accordance with Huygen's wavelets (law of reflection) because it is made up of little particles which obey Newton's laws of motion not waves propagating in a medium.


http://www.wbabin.net/physics/faraj6p.pdf

"7. To treat the Sagnac effect according to the Emission Theory, the Stewart-Thomson law of reflection is required. It states that in the reference frame of the laboratory, light is always reflected
from a moving reflecting surface with the resultant velocity of its relative velocity with respect to the reflecting surface and the velocity of the reflecting surface relative to the laboratory, [Ref. #3]. This important law is a generalization of the Law of Reflection. And it occupies a central position in the treatment of optical phenomena on the basis of the Emission Theory. In its precise mathematical form, the Stewart-Thomson law can be derived and formulated by treating reflection of light as a special case of elastic collision and applying the conservation laws of linear momentum and kinetic energy, for moving bodies, to the incident light and the reflecting surface. However, the quantitative treatment of this subject can be significantly simplified by assuming that the ratio between the mass of the incident light and the mass of the reflecting surface is vanishingly small and practically equal to zero. And therefore, the recoil caused by the incident light on the reflecting surface can be neglected without affecting the precision of the quantitative treatment."

This appears to be the approach used by Waldron. Quite simply photons have mass (as calculated from radiation pressure)

Quite simply, photons do not have mass. The experiments have shown
that. A crank like Waldron cannot change the results of the experiments.


these reflect
elastically off mirrors and if you apply Newton's laws of conservation of energy and momentum, and if you assume m/M = zero i.e. the mass of the photons is negligible compared to the mass of the mirror you can calculate the angles the photons bounce off at.

It is hardly an achievement to disprove a theory you have made up yourself. Anyone who wants to disprove Ballistic theory need to study it first so that he know what it says.

Ballistic theory was disproven long ago. Get over it.
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