The Albert Einstein Institute Betrays Einstein
It is insane to believe that the motion of the observer can change the wavelength of any waves passing by; accordingly, the speed of the waves (relative to the observer) varies with the speed of the observer:
"Sound waves have speed c, and f and L are related by c=Lf. For an observer moving relative to medium with speed u, apparent propagation speed c' will be different: c'=c±u. Wavelength cannot change - it's a constant length in the medium, and same length in moving coordinate system (motion does not change lengths). Observed frequency has to change, to match apparent speed and fixed wavelength: f'=c'/L."
In Divine Albert's world the old-fashioned sanity is only partially tolerated - the motion of the observer is unable to change the wavelength of any waves but light waves. Accordingly, the speed of the light waves (relative to the observer) does not vary with the speed of the observer, Divine Einstein, yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity:
John Norton: "Here's a light wave and an observer. If the observer were to hurry towards the source of the light, the observer would now pass wavecrests more frequently than the resting observer. That would mean that moving observer would find the frequency of the light to have increased (AND CORRESPONDINGLY FOR THE WAVELENGTH - THE DISTANCE BETWEEN CRESTS - TO HAVE DECREASED)."
The inhabitants of Divine Albert's world do not find the idea that the wavelength varies with the speed of the observer insane - they know that:
(frequency) = (speed of light)/(wavelength)
and since the speed of light is constant (Divine Albert said so), the frequency shift can only be explained in terms of a wavelength shift. A century of repetition of this wisdom and nowadays there can be nothing saner.
Quite unexpectedly, the harmony in Divine Albert's world has been broken by... the Albert Einstein Institute:
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. (...) 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."
In this scenario the wavelength of light is replaced by "the distance between subsequent pulses", and the Albert Einstein Institute clearly states that this distance is not affected by the motion of the receiver/observer (it would be too idiotic, even according to the criteria of Einsteiniana, to state the opposite). Therefore the speed of light as measured by the receiver/observer is (4/3)c, in violation of special relativity.
This conclusion is consistent with the classical Doppler effect but one can easily see that the relativistic corrections change essentially nothing - the speed of light relative to the receiver/observer remains different from c.
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