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From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject: Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:47:34 +1000
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On 22/09/2016 8:52 AM, Pentcho Valev wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Irlq3TFr8Q Brian Greene: What does
> it mean for the speed of light to be constant?
>
> The speed of light can only be constant if the motion of the observer
> (Gracy in the video) changes the wavelength of the incoming light in
> the following idiotic way:
>
>

This is an obnoxious way of debating a subject. Essentially, the writer 
attempts to persuade the reader to accept a point not by arguing its 
validity, but by indicating that the reader is themselves idiotic if 
they don't accept it.

Such an approach has no place in science.

Sylvia.