Light Speed "C"

From: mkolchins (mkolchins_at_comcast-dot-net.no-spam.invalid)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 3 Feb 2005 08:26:05 -0600

A number of years ago I purchased a video lecture series by Professor
Richard Wolfson of Middlebury College entitled Einstein’s Relativity
and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non Scientist. I am an
architect not a scientist however I felt I had a better explanation
for why light is always measured at speed “C”. I have posted below a
message that I have sent to Professor Wolfson explaining my theory and
I am interested in this boards thoughts as well.

I purchased your video tape lecture series on Einstein’s Relativity
and the Quantum Revolution a number of years ago and I always felt I
had a better explanation for why light is always measured traveling
at speed “C”. My theory has to do with the nature of photons, the way
they travel and how they are measured. I realize you are going to be
very skeptical however I hope you will at least read my explanation.

• What is light? Light is electromagnetic waves with photons that
occur or are created at the peaks and troughs where the energy of the
wave is concentrated. This is why photons recorded in double slit
experiments distribute themselves in patterns corresponding to wave
peaks and troughs.
• Light waves compress between source and receiver. When light travels
from a source and reaches another object the waves compress, the
amount of compression depends on whether the source and receiver are
moving toward or away from each other and how fast, ie: moving toward
each other will produce more compression than moving away. This
explains the red shift phenomenon.
• The speed of a light waves period is always “C” no matter what the
waves length. This explains why when you measure the speed of photons
(peaks and troughs of waves) they always travel at speed “C”
regardless of how source and receiver are moving relative to each
other. The difference in their movement is taken up in the
compression of the wavelength however the speed of the waves stays
constant. I liken this to the inverse of a pendulum’s period where no
matter how far you swing the pendulum the time it takes to complete a
period remains constant but the speed of the pendulum varies.
I have no significant mathematical background to test my theory with
and I realize that Einstein’s relativity has been tested and
validated however I think that if you mathematically substitute the
compression of light waves for relativity of time and space you might
get the same results. One more thought, if I am right this could be an
explanation for dark matter in space as well, dark matter might just
be objects that are traveling away from earth faster than the speed
of light.

I would very much like to hear your opinion of my theory if possible,
even if you think I am wrong I would like to know why.

Sincerely,

Michael K.
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