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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Pentcho Valev wrote:
> >
> > Richard Feynman either did not understand special relativity or was deliberately confusing the audience:
> >
> > http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_15.html
> >
> >
> > The independence of the motion of the source by no means brings up the "interesting problem" where the dependence/independence of the motion of the observer is discussed. Maxwell's 19th century electromagnetic theory did indeed predict independence of the motion of the source for the speed of light but at the same time predicted dependence on the motion of the observer:
> >
> > http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Chasing.pdf
> >  John Norton: "That [Maxwell's] theory allows light to slow and be frozen in the frame of reference of a sufficiently rapidly moving observer."
> >
> > Feynman doesn't even mention the crucial fact that, originally (prior to FitzGerald and Lorentz advancing the ad hoc length contraction hypothesis), the Michelson-Morley experiment confirmed the Galilean transformation:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory
> >  "Emission theory, also called emitter theory or ballistic theory of light, was a competing theory for the special theory of relativity, explaining the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887. [...] The name most often associated with emission theory is Isaac Newton. In his corpuscular theory Newton visualized light "corpuscles" being thrown off from hot bodies at a nominal speed of c with respect to the emitting object, and obeying the usual laws of Newtonian mechanics, and we th
> >
> > Feynman's explanation of the twin paradox, too, is very suspicious:
> >
> > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/04/physics-needs-philosophy/
> >
> >
> > Pentcho Valev
> 
> Richard Feynman was mad at Albert Einstein for drafting him in
> Einstein's war with Germany.
> 
> Richard Feynman hates Albert Einstein with a vengence...



...and after the bomb was built, Albert Einsteins friends didn't want to
talk with him anymore...