E9.3 - A Shocking Revelation About the Speed of Light Through Refractive Media. Ask Us Whatever.

Joe Sorge reveals that a simple deconstruction of Einstein’s relativistic velocity addition formula separates light speed into two components, one of which is simply the velocity of the light source. This is not Walter Ritz’s model of 1908. Rather Sorge’s formula adds the velocity of the light source to a second component that is governed by the refractive index of the transmission medium (which is equal to 1 in vacuum) and the direction in which the emitter and receiver move with respect to the light signal. This revolutionary perspective explains the result of Fizeau’s moving water experiment at the molecular level absent any reliance on a “partial ether drag effect” or on special relativity.

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Produced by Joe Sorge.
Directed and Edited by Sascha Fridberg.
Filmed by Sascha Fridberg, Jacob Lipsky, Scott McKay Gibson.

3D Animations and Modeling by Jacob Lipsky.
2D Animations by Bianca Volper, Jacob Lipsky, Sascha Fridberg.

Theme Music by Scott McKay Gibson.
Sound Design and Mix by Josh Reinhardt, James Singleton.