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Re: Post-Truth Science (Einstein's Relativity)

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The ’nym-shifting troll trolled as "Bordamos Alamidade":

> Pentcho Valev wrote:
>> 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.

And it has been refuted numerous times, which is described further below in 
the referred Wikipedia article.  But a crackpot does not see what the 
crackpot does not *want* to see.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory#Refutations_of_emission_theory>

>>  [...]
>>  The name most often associated with emission theory is Isaac Newton.

How interesting, given that Newton died more than 200 years before the MMX.

>>  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 then expect light to be moving towards us with a speed that is
>>  offset by the speed of the distant emitter (c ± v)."

Newton’s corpuscular theory had been refuted in the 19th century already, 
for example by Fresnel’s diffraction experiments, published in 1815 and 
1818.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpuscular_theory_of_light#Sir_Isaac_Newton>
 
> Why not at all?

That is a stupid question.

> The red and the blue shifting must be a proof for the above??

No, and the natural sciences are not concerned with proofs (as you have been 
told /ad nauseam/).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift>

*PLONK*

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Post-Truth Science (Einstein's Relativity) Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-06 01:40 -0700
  Re: Post-Truth Science (Einstein's Relativity) Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-06 08:42 -0700
    Re: Post-Truth Science (Einstein's Relativity) Bordamos Alamidade <dd@dsmdawo.ab> - 2017-05-06 17:12 +0000
      Re: Post-Truth Science (Einstein's Relativity) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-07 01:53 +0200
    Re: Post-Truth Science (Einstein's Relativity) Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-06 16:18 -0700

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