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Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant?

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant?
Date 2016-09-22 09:20 -0500
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On 9/21/2016 8:47 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
> 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.

Pentcho has always believed that physics should be consistent with HIS 
intuition. And if physicists maintain that something is true that 
conflicts with HIS intuition, then they are guilty of idiocy or lunacy.

Pentcho is not prepared to accept that his intuition might be just flat 
wrong.

-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-21 15:52 -0700
  Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 17:45 -0700
  Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-09-22 11:47 +1000
    Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2016-09-22 02:07 -0700
    Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 09:20 -0500
      Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 12:22 -0700
  Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-22 01:49 -0700
    Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 12:24 -0700
    Re: What does it mean for the speed of light to be constant? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-09-24 08:46 -0700
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