Re: Grahics drawer wanted to show light source dependency

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:02:39 +0000 (UTC)

"Jim Greenfield" <greenfield_7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> > "Jim Greenfield" <greenfield_7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:3c4afb26.0406112326.78c7361d@posting.google.com...
> > > "MorituriMax" <newage@sendarico.net> wrote in message
> > news:<CZtyc.20358$KL2.15047@fe2.texas.rr.com>...
> > > > Jim Greenfield wrote:
> > > > > I require someone who understands that the velocity of light
in
> > a
> > > > > vacuum is dependent on the velocity of its source, to draw
> > (preferably
> > > >
> > > > What drugs are you on? Dependant on the velocity of its
source?
> > >
> > > ALL my references to c are in a vacuum, unless otherwise stated.
> > SOoo,
> > > do YOU think that the photons emitted from a parked car are
> > travelling
> > > at the same velocity of one which passes it?????????
> >
> > Actually, yes. To any observer, the speed of light is the same,
> > irrespectively of the speed of the source relative to him.
> > This has been verified experimentally up to source velocities very
> > close to that of light itself.
> >
> > By the way, do you realise that for an observer at the edge of a
pond,
> > surface waves produced by a moving source have the same speed as
waves
> > produced by a fixed source? Don't come back until you have taken
that
> > on board.
>
> If you think that a ripple on a pond , is "the equivalent" of an EM
> particle travelling through (nearly) empty space, then I most
> certainly WILL NOT be boarding you boat!! It is in immediate and
dire
> risk of going down with all hands!!!!!!!!!

I don't. I merely pointed out an interesting feature of the source
independence of the speed of ripples on a pond

Franz

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