Is the Speed of Light Independent of the Velocity of the Source?
- 24 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (17) , 1051-1054
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.1051
Abstract
Recent observations of regularly pulsating x-ray sources in binary star systems are analyzed in the framework of the "emission" theory of light. Assuming that light emitted by a source moving at velocity with respect to an observer has a speed in the observer's rest frame, we find that the arrival time of pulses from the binary x-ray sources implies . This appears to be the most direct and sensitive demonstration that the speed of light is independent of the velocity of the source.
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