sci.physics.relativity

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:18:25 -0700, Dono wrote:

>Looking at a very good paper on Pound-Rebka :
>
> /IHP06/lectures/mester-vinet/
>
>one question comes to mind: why isn't the time dilation between the
>top and the bottom of the tower taken into calculation? The speeds of
>the top and bottom of the tower are unequal:
>
>omega*R at the bottom vs. omega*(R+H) at the top. So, following the
>reasoning used by Ashby in his GPS paper (where h is much larger, of
>course) the authors should have calculated the effect of time
>dilation. What would that effect have amounted to?

The P&R experiment merely shows that light accelerates as it falls like
anything else.
The frequeny of 'wavecrest arrival' increases according to Newton.

Einstein chose to maintain a constant light speed ...which can be easily
achieved mathematicaly by inserting an artificial gradient in space
itself......he got the same answer.....but what a silly thing to do.....!.



/hewn/

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