Re: Research Opportunities

On Jul 19, 8:11 pm, "Spaceman" <space...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
copiouse...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Forgive my ignorance. The speed of light is a "local" constant, but
not a "global" constant, correct? For all non-accelerating frames, c
is a constant, at least according to generally accepted theory.
Accelerating observers can observe different speeds of light?

Locally or not.
Lightspeed is a speed.
Observations of lightwaves is not a measurement
of the passing speeds. (it is a calculation limited to lightspeed itself)
Observations are of course limited to the observational speed
that light will permit.
So you will never be able to observe lightspeed to be faster than
c because you are in fact limited by observation itself.
Now if you wish to measure the speed of a wavefront
going by you, that is where you can find that lightspeed
can not be constant to all frames.
If lightspeed is a speed at all, it has to be relative just as any other
speed would be.
General accepted theories like relativity are not actually as generally
accepted as one might think.
And IF you really want cutting edge, you will have to drop that
100 yr old observational joke.

Observers that are not in the source frame of the light
can measure non c speeds for c by simply timing wave fronts
passing by them.
If you have an object traveling at a known speed of
0.5 c heading towards a lightsource, the speed of the
waves passing by him would have to be 1.5 c relatively.
Other types of non source frames will also read different
"speeds" for the light waves passing by.
:)

--
James M Driscoll Jr
Spaceman

But is counting wavefronts really a way to measure the speed proper of
the object itself? The phase progression of the wavefronts can have an
"apparent" velocity greater than c, while the waves themselves travel
at c. Don't get me wrong, I don't know enough to argue one way or
another, I've just been indoctrinated into the school of Absolute c.
Why has this been propagated for two generations if it isn't true?
Aren't there observational experiments that confirm the constancy of c?
.

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