Recent content by RoccoV

Thanks for all your help guys. You have gone a long way to convincing me. One thing that is obvious is that I need to hit the books if I truly want to be convinced. A few books have been mentined. I'll have to look into them and see if I'm able to raise my understanding enough to convince...

You're tight, this is at a level I can understand and pretty much already understand but it leaves questions unanswered. 1. What are those "physical laws" that are supposed to give "a definite speed for light" and what do they mean? 2. In regards to the example given of Al's trip to the...

So would they have used a constant value for the speed of light, namely C, with the bending light test when doing the calculations using Einstein’s formulas and a variable speed of light with the Newtonian formulas because the particles of light would be speeding up as they approached the sun...

I thought Einstein’s second assumption was that light would always appear to be moving at speed C regardless of the frame of reference and this caused contradictions unless time, space and mass were made malleable. Did I understand that wrong?

I don't understand all of your post but I see that C is used in the Newtonian equation so now we come to why I asked the question in the first place. First a little history. From what I understand of Einstein’s formulas, he started with 2 assumptions; 1. Any observer moving at a constant...

I've always been fascinated by Einstein’s theories about the speed of light and have always wondered about something that I've never been able to find the answer to. Any books I read were either too simple and did not address my question or too complex that I didn't understand it. It's time I...