Volume 17: Pages 338-341, 2004

The Invalidation of a Sacred Principle of Modern Physics

Stephan J. G. Gift

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies

The principle underpinning modern physics, which states that the speed of light is constant and independent of the motion of the source and the observer, is shown to be invalid.

Keywords: special theory of relativity, Roemer, Doppler, Einstein's law of light propagation, principle of the constancy of the velocity of light

Received: December 4, 2003; Published online: December 15, 2008