Re: Glass a speed to frequency transformer?


Jan Panteltje wrote:
> I want to point to some thoughts I have on the matter:
>
> Can we not look upon any piece of glass such as a mirror or a lens
> as a speed-to-frequency transformer?

No.

> This is why I think that:
> When light is emitted as c + v,

What evidence do you have that light is ever emitted at
speed c+v? From what? What is v?

> when it hits glass the following happens:
>
> the atoms in the glass pass through the maxima and minima in the wave at
> c + v.
> They see a different frequency (higher if v positive).
> These atoms then emit new light, with the new frequency, in their reference
> frame c + v' (v is the speed of the glass).

That's not a frequency.

What does "speed of the glass" mean?

> In my view C is not fixed, and this transformation would explain some
> results of other experiments perhaps.

I don't understand any of that. Why don't you explain what
happens when sunlight strikes a prism, for starters?

- Randy

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