"SRdude" wrote in message oups.com...
.................Simple Math Derivation Needed..................

Even after deliberately disregarding all preceding and subsequent
words in the book, the fact remains that Einstein at one point
definitely derived the very simple equation w = c - v.

Here are his own words:
"w is the required velocity of light with respect to the carriage,
and we have w = c - v.
The velocity of propagation of a ray of light relative to the carriage
thus comes out smaller than c."
---------------http://www.bartleby.com/173/7.html---------------------
All I am looking for is one brave soul who will show this derivation.

By the way, Brian, there is a typo in my reply.
See if you can find it.

Dirk Vdm

[Dirk Vdm noted:]
The light signal has velocity c w.r.t. the embankment.

[Cadwgan replies:]
Show on paper explicitly how this happened.

[Dirk Vdm noted:]
But Einstein was talking to physicists, not to laymen.

[Cadwgan replies:]
Nope, his book specifically addressed the educated layman.
(See the preface.)

"SRdude" wrote in message ups.com...
[Dirk Vdm noted:]
The light signal has velocity c w.r.t. the embankment.

[Cadwgan replies:]
Show on paper explicitly how this happened.

Gee, you are a stupid man.


[Dirk Vdm noted:]
But Einstein was talking to physicists, not to laymen.

[Cadwgan replies:]
Nope, his book specifically addressed the educated layman.
(See the preface.)

I was referring to the original:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
which was addressed to physicists. In his book Einstein might have
addressed the educated layman, but he sure wasn't expecting an
uneducated hog like you.

I said: "By the way, Brian, there is a typo in my reply.
See if you can find it."
So try again.

Dirk Vdm