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We could go on like this forever, couldn't we? And you still wouldn't get it.
We could go on like this forever, couldn't we? And you still wouldn't get it.
In my theory the MSRT http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1272 , the speed of light is locally invariant and equals to c (speed of light in vacuum). what is different is the measuring the speed of light inside the vacuum of a moving train. For the stationary observer on the earth surface, if he made an experiment for measuring the speed of light inside the moving train he would find it c'=(c^2-v^2)^0.5. In this case the speed of light is depending on the vacuum energy of the moving train which is greater than the vacuum energy of the earth stationary observer. In this case, for the earth observer, the events which are occuring inside the moving train, will be occurred in a slower than if the train is stationary according to the earth observer, and thus, the earth observer will see the clock of the moving train will move in a slower rate than his clock. For the rider of the moving train, if he made an experiment to measure the speed of light inside his moving train, he would find it equals to c same as if the train was stationary. But the difference here in the MSRT, if this rider looked at the clock of the earth observer he would find it is ticking at the same rate of his clock. Thus, according to the MSRT, the rider of the moving train, sees the events that are occurring on the earth in his present, are happened in the past for the earth observer. For example Suppose the rider of the moving train was computed 2 years by his clock, also he will compute at this moment 2 years by the clock of the earth observer during the motion. If the train was moving with speed 0.87c, and after the rider computed 2 years by his clock, he stopped the train. So, before the train stopped he will think the clock of the earth was computed 2 years as he was seeing it before stopping the train, where is was moving at the same rate of his clock, but when he stopped the train and looked at the clock of the earth, he would find it ticking grater than 4 years not 2 years, and he would find the earth observer's old increased 4 years not 2 years as he was seeing him. The rider was seeing the earth observer during the motion at events happened for the observer before 2 years, where it is a past for the earth observer. The event were done for the earth observer from 2years to4 years were not seen by the rider. according to this example in the MSRT, it is solving the problem regarded to the twin paradox, also it illustrating why in quantum tunneling and entanglements it is speeding up time, and measuring speeds greater than the speed of light. In my MSRT, I proof there is no violation for Lorentz transformation, or causality, Also the information is not transformed with speed greater than the speed of light. Please read my paper http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1272 then we can discuss.
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One more.
Clearly the speed of light as measured by the observer varies with the speed of the observer:
http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/211-sp06/class19/class19_doppler.html
Professor Sidney Redner: "We will focus on sound waves in describing the Doppler effect, but it works for other waves too. (...) Let's say you, the observer, now move toward the source with velocity vO. You encounter more waves per unit time than you did before. Relative to you, the waves travel at a higher speed: v'=v+vO. The frequency of the waves you detect is higher, and is given by: f'=v'/(lambda)=(v+vO)/(lambda)."
The only reason why Einstein's relativity still exists is that nobody cares. Feyerabend should have combined his "Anything goes" with "Who cares".
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Since nobody cares whether Einstein's relativity is correct or not (it is a money-spinner anyway), the Albert Einstein Institute can safely explain the Doppler effect by implicitly assuming that the speed of light as measured by the observer varies with the speed of the observer:
http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/doppler
Albert Einstein Institute: "The frequency of a wave-like signal - such as sound or light - depends on the movement of the sender and of the receiver. This is known as the Doppler effect. (...) In the above paragraphs, we have only considered moving sources. In fact, a closer look at cases where it is the receiver that is in motion will show that this kind of motion leads to a very similar kind of Doppler effect. Here is an animation of the receiver moving towards the source: (...) By observing the two indicator lights, you can see for yourself that, once more, there is a blue-shift - the pulse frequency measured at the receiver is somewhat higher than the frequency with which the pulses are sent out. This time, the distances between subsequent pulses are not affected, but still there is a frequency shift: As the receiver moves towards each pulse, the time until pulse and receiver meet up is shortened. In this particular animation, which has the receiver moving towards the source at one third the speed of the pulses themselves, four pulses are received in the time it takes the source to emit three pulses."
Let the distance between subsequent pulses (which is not affected by the motion of the receiver) be L and the time it takes the source to emit three pulses be t. The speed of the pulses a fixed receiver measures is 3L/t = c. Accordingly, the speed of the pulses the moving receiver measures is 4L/t = (4/3)c.
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Mysterious wavelength shift in special relativity:
The observer starts moving away from the light source with speed v:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EVzUyE2oD1w
According to a second observer, stationary in the frame of the source, the speed of the light relative to the moving observer shifts from c to c'=c-v. The wavelength does not shift at all (L'=L) - the stationary observer finds it unthinkable that the moving observer could somehow change the wavelength. Special relativity agrees with the observations of the stationary observer.
Yet the selfsame special relativity forbids the moving observer to see any shift in the speed of light (c'=c), and there is a price to pay: The formula f'=c'/L' should be obeyed so the moving observer must somehow see the wavelength shift from L to L'=Lc/(c-v). The stationary observer does not see the wavelength shift but the moving observer does (more precisely, should). If he did not, an unprecedented catastrophe would sweep over theoretical physics.
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
space originates from quantum vacuum and time is a mathematical dimension of motion in quantum vacuum.
see more onAttachment #1: Dimensionality_of_time_under_examination___sorli_2012.pdf
Initially, the observer was stationary with respect to the wave source and X wave peaks passed him in one second. Then he started moving towards the source so a greater number of peaks, X+Y, are now passsing him in one second. Does this mean that the moving observer sees the peaks pass him FASTER? Einsteinians?
Einsteinians: "Yes, obviously... Wait! If the waves are light waves... No! Impossible! Help! Help! Divine Einstein! Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity!"
http://physicspages.com/2011/07/07/doppler-effect/
"The Doppler effect occurs because the observer is moving relative to a light source. If light is being emitted by a source such as a star, then the light will have a particular frequency (or in general, mixture of frequencies, but we'll concentrate on monochromatic light), which can be measured as the number of peaks in the wave that pass a fixed point in one second. IF THE OBSERVER MOVES TOWARDS THE LIGHT SOURCE, THEN IN THAT SECOND, HE WILL PASS A GREATER NUMBER OF PEAKS IN THE WAVE, and thus the frequency of the light appears higher, or blue-shifted, since for visible light, the colour appears shifted towards the blue end of the spectrum. Similarly, if the observer moves away from the light source, the frequency appears lower and the light is red-shifted. Note that this effect does not violate the postulate of the constancy of the speed of light, which is fundamental to relativity. THE LIGHT ITSELF STILL MOVES AT THE SAME SPEED RELATIVE TO THE MOVING OBSERVERS; what changes is the frequency, and hence the energy, of the light that is observed."
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Pentcho, these elementary errors would be merely annoying if they were few. As it is, they amount to trolling, IMO.
"Initially, the observer was stationary with respect to the wave source and X wave peaks passed him in one second. Then he started moving towards the source so a greater number of peaks, X+Y, are now passsing him in one second. Does this mean that the moving observer sees the peaks pass him FASTER? Einsteinians?"
There is no fixed point, or privileged coordinate frame; that's why it's called "relativity." It makes no difference whether the observer moves toward the source or the source moves toward him--the physics of the one is symmetric to the physics of the other. "Faster" and "slower" are relative to each other, thus the measured effects of time dilation/length contraction.
Tom
Pentcho, Tom.
There is also an intuitive alternative;
The observer CANNOT 'detect' the waves 'going past him'. He can only 'detect' those interacting with his lens medium. On any interaction between light and a co-moving medium it is wavelength lambda that changes, 'Frequency' is only a derivative of lambda and time, i.e. it is NOT REAL!
Yes, we've become too familiar with treating it as a real quality as it is the 'observable' derivative (of lambda and c/n). f cannot however change, in reality, unless lambda changes on detection.
SR is conceptually correct. The waves going past cannot be seen. What can be seen is something quite different; if any particles are in the vacuum, then light will be scattered from them sequentially. Each of these light emissions will also of course be emitted at c. As Einstein's 'Proper Time' cannot be used in measuring the APPARENT speed of the ORIGINAL wave peaks (or photons), then the ''apparent'' speed found (by calculation of the secondary sequence in the OTHER frame) will not be, and is not required to be, c.
That the sigma/Higgs field is now real has been confirmed by the CERN announcement. All Einstein's 1952 conceptions and ontology are then correct, and the error he was looking for was simply the one wrong 'assumption' which Lorentz identified in his 1913 speech. So we may also indeed Pentcho agree all emissions and re-emissions are at c, and LOCAL c, giving Local Reality and removing the apparent paradoxes. This adjustment should however then save Einstein from the otherwise potentially devastating implications of the sigma field.
The mechanism and implications should be better understandable in my essay.
Is there any particular part of the above with which either of you would take any issue?
Peter
An Open Question to FQXi's Steve Carlip
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/speed_of_light.html
Steve Carlip: "Einstein went on to discover a more general theory of relativity which explained gravity in terms of curved spacetime, and he talked about the speed of light changing in this new theory. In the 1920 book "Relativity: the special and general theory" he wrote: "...according to the general theory of relativity, the law of the constancy of the velocity of light in vacuo, which constitutes one of the two fundamental assumptions in the special theory of relativity [...] cannot claim any unlimited validity. A curvature of rays of light can only take place when the velocity of propagation of light varies with position." Since Einstein talks of velocity (a vector quantity: speed with direction) rather than speed alone, it is not clear that he meant the speed will change, but the reference to special relativity suggests that he did mean so. This interpretation is perfectly valid and makes good physical sense, but a more modern interpretation is that the speed of light is constant in general relativity. (...) Finally, we come to the conclusion that the speed of light is not only observed to be constant; in the light of well tested theories of physics, it does not even make any sense to say that it varies."
http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9909014v1.pdf
Steve Carlip: "It is well known that the deflection of light is twice that predicted by Newtonian theory; in this sense, at least, light falls with twice the acceleration of ordinary "slow" matter."
Steve Carlip,
The top of a tower of height h emits light with frequency f, speed c and wavelength L (as measured by the emitter). An observer on the ground measures the frequency to be f'=f(1+gh/c^2), the speed of light to be c' and the wavelength to be L'. Please answer the following questions: c'=? L'=?
Thank you in advance,
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Good morning Sophie Hebden
Thanks for an excellent presentation of some the points finding attention of mainstream physicists. In PicoPhysics - we have less items of worry about. For example invariance of speed of light is a simple Corollary to Unary law 'Space contains energy'.
May I invite you to review my essay at http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1326
I look forward to your comments and evaluation of the essay.
Vijay Gupta
Inconstant speed of light in the Perimeter Institute:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/newsletter/2012/spring/files/assets/seo/page12.html
"Laurent Freidel and Lee Smolin, both faculty members at the Perimeter Institute, have been collaborating with Giovanni Amelino-Camelia at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. The quartet has been investigating the effects of a curvature of momentum space. What they discovered is shocking: the curvature of momentum space would indeed distort the conservation laws. Special relativity would say that any two photons, regardless of their energies, would travel at exactly the speed of light. In a curved momentum space, though, that's no longer true: high-energy photons would move differently than low-energy ones."
Of course, this only concerns the Perimeter Institute. Ordinary Einsteinians should know that the speed of light is constant and that's it. The practice of singing hymns is called hymnody:
http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/divine.htm
DIVINE EINSTEIN: No-one's as dee-vine as Albert Einstein not Maxwell, Curie, or Bo-o-ohr!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkLLXhONvQ
We all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. Everything is relative, even simultaneity, and soon Einstein's become a de facto physics deity. 'cos we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. We all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity.
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Doppler effect threatens relativity:
http://moodle.davidson.edu/moodle2/pluginfile.php/15877/mod_resource/content/1/Intro120-Week-13.pdf
"When the observer is moving, the sound waves emitted from the source are undisturbed, the wavelength does not change as observed from the moving observer he/she just comes across more/less wavefronts per time (...) when moving towards/away from the source and consequently sees a change in frequency."
If in the above quotation the word "sound" is replaced with "light", the text will be fatal for relativity - the speed of light, as measured by the observer, will turn out to vary with the speed of the observer. Relativity can only be saved if additional changes in the text are made:
When the observer is moving, the LIGHT waves emitted from the source are DISTURBED, the wavelength DOES CHANGE as observed from the moving observer SO THAT he/she just comes across more/less wavefronts per time (...) when moving towards/away from the source and consequently sees a change in frequency.
Do the additional changes in the text have any justification? Is it reasonable to believe that the motion of the observer DOES CHANGE the wavelength of the light wave but DOES NOT CHANGE the wavelength of any other wave? How can this variation of the wavelength of light with the speed of the observer be explained in physical terms? Why no such explanation can be found in the relativistic literature?
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Doppler effect really threatens relativity:
Question: The observer is moving away from the light source with a speed Vo. In time t, the number of waves observed by him is (c-Vo)t/lambda, where lambda is the wavelength. What is the speed of the light waves as measured by the observer?
Answer: The speed of the light waves as measured by the observer is c-Vo, in violation of special relativity.
http://www.cmmp.ucl.ac.uk/~ahh/teaching/1B24n/lect19.pdf
Tony Harker, University College London: "The Doppler Effect: Moving sources and receivers. The phenomena which occur when a source of sound is in motion are well known. The example which is usually cited is the change in pitch of the engine of a moving vehicle as it approaches. In our treatment we shall not specify the type of wave motion involved, and our results will be applicable to sound or to light. (...) Now suppose that the observer is moving with a velocity Vo away from the source. (...) If the observer moves with a speed Vo away from the source (...), then in a time t the number of waves which reach the observer are those in a distance (c-Vo)t, so the number of waves observed is (c-Vo)t/lambda, giving an observed frequency f'=f(1-Vo/c) when the observer is moving away from the source at a speed Vo."
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
This is a fun thread. OK, when do we quit goofing around and begin work on a superluminal drive model? OK, I'll go first.
A patch of space-time, which can contain a spaceship, is just a particle in a superluminal space-time. The speed of light in this superluminal space-time is c' >> c.
Question: can we describe the kind of field that we have to generate around our spaceship so that we can maneuver in superluminal space?
Any takers?
Doppler effect is fatal for relativity: the speed of the light waves, as measured by the observer, varies with the speed of the observer:
http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~gibson/Notes/Section6_3/Sec6_3.htm
Professor George N. Gibson, University of Connecticut: "Now imagine that you are returning to shore, and so you are traveling in the same direction as the waves. In this case, the waves may still overtake you, but AT A MUCH SLOWER RATE - you will bob up and down more slowly. In fact, if you travel with exactly the same speed as the waves, you will not bob up and down at all. The same thing is true for sound waves, or ANY OTHER WAVES."
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Variable speed of light in a gravitational field:
http://physics.aps.org/story/v16/st1
"Imagine a pulse of light emitted downward from the top of a cliff just as a diver jumps. By the time the light reaches the ground, the diver will have gained speed and will regard a detector stationed on the ground as moving upward. According to the diver, the light source was stationary when it emitted the pulse, but the detector is racing upwards toward the light pulse at the moment of detection. So the detector should see the light's frequency increased by the Doppler effect."
As judged from the frame of the diver, at the moment of detection the detector is racing upwards with a speed v. So what is the relative speed of the light pulse and the detector at the moment of detection, ACCORDING TO THE DIVER? Both antirelativists and (clever) relativists claim that, ACCORDING TO THE DIVER, the relative speed is:
c' = c v
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
Einstein's nightmare: The speed of light relative to an observer varies if that observer moves towards or away from the light source:
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay-einstein-relativity.htm
John Stachel: "But here he ran into the most blatant-seeming contradiction, which I mentioned earlier when first discussing the two principles. As noted then, the Maxwell-Lorentz equations imply that there exists (at least) one inertial frame in which the speed of light is a constant regardless of the motion of the light source. Einstein's version of the relativity principle (minus the ether) requires that, if this is true for one inertial frame, it must be true for all inertial frames. But this seems to be nonsense. How can it happen that the speed of light relative to an observer cannot be increased or decreased if that observer moves towards or away from a light beam? Einstein states that he wrestled with this problem over a lengthy period of time, to the point of despair. We have no details of this struggle, unfortunately. Finally, after a day spent wrestling once more with the problem in the company of his friend and patent office colleague Michele Besso, the only person thanked in the 1905 SRT paper, there came a moment of crucial insight. In all of his struggles with the emission theory as well as with Lorentz's theory, he had been assuming that the ordinary Newtonian law of addition of velocities was unproblematic. It is this law of addition of velocities that allows one to "prove" that, if the velocity of light is constant with respect to one inertial frame, it cannot be constant with respect to any other inertial frame moving with respect to the first. It suddenly dawned on Einstein that this "obvious" law was based on certain assumptions about the nature of time..."
Time did obey Einstein's orders - it started to flow differently for the moving observer so that the speed of light relative to him could gloriously remain constant. Unfortunately Einstein forgot to tell the wavelength to vary with the speed of the observer so as to neutralize the frequency shift. The danger is obvious - bad people may remember the formula:
(frequency) = (speed of light)/(wavelength)
and come to the conclusion: "The frequency varies as the observer moves towards or away from the light source but the motion of the observer obviously cannot alter the wavelength of any wave - it remains unchanged. Then the formula tells us that the frequency shift can only be caused by a shift in the speed of light. In other words, the Doppler effect amounts to an experimental confirmation of the variation of the speed of light with the speed of the observer. No we don't believe in relativity, relativity, relativity anymore!"
Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com