Space Forum / Astronomy / June 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/nationaltreasures/2193785/Prof-Stephe
n-Hawkin-portrait.html
"Professor Stephen Hawking is responsible for changing the way the
world looks at the basic laws governing the universe."

In order to change the world, Professor Stephen Hawking explained to
it that the Michelson-Morley experiment had confirmed, once and for
all, the validity of Einstein's 1905 false light postulate and had
refuted, once and for all, the prediction of Newton's emission theory
of light according to which the speed of light does depend on the
speed of the emitter or the observer:

http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html
Professor Stephen Hawking: "Interestingly enough, Laplace himself
wrote a paper in 1799 on how some stars could have a gravitational
field so strong that light could not escape, but would be dragged back
onto the star. He even calculated that a star of the same density as
the Sun, but two hundred and fifty times the size, would have this
property. But although Laplace may not have realised it, the same idea
had been put forward 16 years earlier by a Cambridge man, John
Mitchell, in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society. Both Mitchell and Laplace thought of light as consisting of
particles, rather like cannon balls, that could be slowed down by
gravity, and made to fall back on the star. But a famous experiment,
carried out by two Americans, Michelson and Morley in 1887, showed
that light always travelled at a speed of one hundred and eighty six
thousand miles a second, no matter where it came from. How then could
gravity slow down light, and make it fall back."

http://www.time.com/time/time100/poc/magazine/a_brief_history_of_rela6a.html
Professor Stephen Hawking: "But Michelson and Morley found no daily or
yearly differences between the two beams of light. It was as if light
always traveled at the same speed relative to you, no matter how you
were moving."

So the world changed to such an extent that, when on reading John
Norton's explanation:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as
evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost
universally use it as support for the light postulate of special
relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE
WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT
POSTULATE."

all Einstein zombies simultaneously declare:

"Zombie believe Master John Norton not. Zombie believe Master Stephen
Hawking yes. Master Stephen Hawking clever very clever. Experiment say
Divine Albert right. Experiment say Michell wrong. Michell not clever
very clever. Master John Norton not clever very clever. Divine Albert
yes clever very clever. Master Stephen Hawking yes clever very
clever."

Then zombies sing "Divine Einstein" and go into convulsions.

Pentcho Valev
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