CHECKING IT OUT

The advice I usually give for checking out my statements, namely to confront my opponents with them, is useless here.

Not to mention the difficulties with which this whole discussion began, they will ridicule and mock you. The more intelligent among them will point out that the great majority of anti-Einsteinians are crackpots and nuts (true); that there have been many previous claims of refuting Einstein experimentally before (true again); but that all such attempts turned out to be flawed (and true for the third time).

So how do you check things out? By looking at Einstein's original clinical 1905 paper "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies." Here he makes two bizarre postulates, derives the relation between quantities in two uniformly moving systems (the Lorentz transformation), and in Sec. 7 deals with aberration and the relativistic Doppler effect in one swoop. Check out my story by asking the Einsteinians:

You might also point out the limited scope of the Theory of Relativity. It differs from classical physics exclusively in the cases where the velocities of matter are commesurate with the velocity of light: That is for elementary particles and in astronomy. And only astronomy has well defined macroscopic bodies.

Hayden's paper will be published in the Sept./Oct. issue of Galilean Electrodynamics next month. If I live long enough, I will publish all of volume 4 (1993) as a paperback. Please do NOT buy it unless you are thoroughly familiar with all aspects of electromagnetics at the graduate level.