On Jan 3, 4:38*pm, "Jeckyl" wrote:
"kenseto" wrote in message

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So where is the wavelength of 588.995 nm for sodium come from? BTW you
claimed that this wavelength is the result of those sodium atoms at
rest wrt the grating. The sodium also have another wavelength 590.58nm
is this wavelength aslo come from those sodium atoms at rest wrt the
grating?

Why are you so obseessed with sodium?

Because it's the only spectroscopy example he knows, and it comes from
a lesson I gave him in a post last summer. He's repeatedly mentioned
that the only thing he knows about this is what I've told him, and so
it's frustrating to him when I tell him that he still doesn't have it
right. What's interesting about this, of course, is that he wrote his
paper about the E-Matrix and has written further papers about his
explanation of the Doppler effect, all *before* I explained the first
thing about spectroscopy to him. This means that he wrote those papers
while knowing *nothing* about spectroscopy -- except possibly what he
read in A Brief History of Time or other coffee table books. It hasn't
occurred to him that it's hazardous to write a paper about a subject
that he knows absolutely nothing about. I imagine he heard that
Einstein's original paper didn't have any references on it, and he
guessed (wrongly) that Einstein wrote it without reading anything that
informed his thinking; therefore if Einstein could do it, then Seto
could do it. The only significant problem now is that he's got a lot
of time and effort invested in this monumental (not to mention
outlandishly presumptuous) mistake, and so it would be quite painful
to simply chuck all that in the dustbin and start again.

PD