RobA,

Actually, you have to divide those two times to get a ratio of the frequencies. A difference in times is absolute. But that makes sense, too, really, to find the total destructive interference. But that's not the way they chose to do it. My main concern in all of this is how does Einstein propose the same concepts, formulas, Doppler shift, Loretz contraction and so forth that is used for the concept of an ether to explain the null results when the same ones didn't work out in the experiment in the first place? If they show how the effects of the ether can be cancelled out, then there is still an ether. And how does he intend to show this by simply recreating the same formulas all over again? If there is no ether, then the MM experiment should at least verify SR by the same methods. But it shows a null result. Simple reasoning says that this is because the observer is moving with that which we are trying to measure. This would produce null results regardless of which methods we are using.

I have been attempting to provide an explanation using the Doppler shift for the effects we presently ascribe to relativity, such as gravitational lensing and gravitational redshifting. I thought that would be difficult to do, but it has taken me all of a day and a half so far. And I got them the first time around. Not too difficult after all. I was going to wait a little while and see what else I can determine, but I guess I'll go ahead and post what I have so far. I will do this tomorrow, the first chance I get.

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"Let's define another operator, Sz, which we won't pay any attention to."
"This transformation will automatically make zero equal zero."
"It may be true that zero equals zero -- and that is certainly an equality -- but I don't want to go into the details at this time."