Bill Hobba wrote:

> Hayek wrote:
> 
>>What sets the speed of light ?
>>
>>The inertial field that it is in.
>>
>>
> 
> Please cite the peer reviewed paper that provides the experimental details
> of the detection of this fabulous thing. 


You can draw those conclusions yourself, from existing 
experiments :

  The speed of light is :

- not influenced by the speed of its source (pulsars)
- influenced by gravity (or inertia,=)(shapiro delay)

Detection of inertia?
How do you detect the inertia of your own frame, as it 
dictates *ALL* the laws of physics ? This can only be 
done by watching from another frame with different 
inertia. Like a sealevel clock watching another clock at 
mountain level, and vice versa. And this does only gives 
relative results. Well, maybe not quite, one could 
deduce overall inertia from the ratio of influence of 
the Earth. The Earth influences inertia by about one in 
a billion.

> The author will win a Nobel prize
> for sure.  The fact is there is no such thing.

So you deny gravity *and* inertia ?

As I stated clearly, he inertial field is the same thing 
as the gravitational field, according to GR that got it 
from Mach. And Gravity Probe B is going to test this 
directly.

You should read this very carefully :
http://www.blavatsky.net/confirm/ev/ether/etherEinstein.htm


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>  Classically the speed of
> light is set by Maxwell's equations 

After you pluck permittivity and permeability constants 
out of 'empty space', by experiment.

> - no inertial field, aether or anything
> else required - just the plain good old electromagnetic field.

I have heard about an electric field, a magnetic field, 
and about an electromagnetic wave, but I never heard of 
an electromagnetic field.

Hayek.