Monday, July 8, 2013

The Principle of Invariant Light Speed

It took me 38 years to understand this - why 'The Principle of Invariant Light Speed' happens.

The Principle of Invariant Light Speed – "... light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity [speed] c which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body." (from the preface).[1] That is, light in vacuum propagates with the speed c (a fixed constant, independent of direction) in at least one system of inertial coordinates (the "stationary system"), regardless of the state of motion of the light source.

The motion was considered mechanistic - because of legacy of Newtonian Mechanics and Galilean Transformations, e.g., absolute motion was an algebraic sum.

The motion of photon is subtle and near-first principle of Reality.  The mechanistic motion of Source is gross and far off first principle of Reality.  How could gross affect the subtle - that too when distance of layers of Realities between them was very far?  One was Matter moving through Space, and the other subtler than what made the Matter.

So what if photon is emitted from a moving electron - whose speed is varied? Or photon riding on another photon whose speed is varied?  Here my opinion is that speed of light can be altered and also broken - and are corner cases in experiments - and hard to capture.

Think "Time Travel" through Warm Holes - what it does to Speed of Light?