> But can it account for the experiments of Fizeau, Airy and Arago?
> If it cannot, then it is a non-starter.

Brian, I really don't care if your theory of how birds fly is by steering
with their wingfins and having zero buoyancy in the fluid in which they
move, and my concept of aerodynamics jibes with your theory of hydraulics.
I'm not interested in discussing the buoyancy of a bird, or the passage of
light in a medium. I'll accept what the text books say on that, it's been
studied to death. According to your way of thinking, aerodynamics would be a
non-starter. When the "Eagle" landed on the Moon, it didn't have wings, or
even fins to steer by. It worked on an entirely different principle to fish
and birds, and while it was in transit between Earth and Moon it had zero
buoyancy, but the command capsule suddenly had 'wings' when it deployed its
parachutes and buoyancy before it was dragged from the ocean. Some
properties also depend on the environment, they are not all intrinsic. Light
is such a phenomenon. It's properties depend on it's environment.
SR is a non-starter. I'm an engineer, and  no engineer has ever been able to
'start' or make any use of SR. But given the funding, I could design and
build a light accelerator that operated only above atmosphere and speed up
interplanetary communications. I'm a practical bloke , and a realist. I'm
never going to get that funding, because some idiot 100 years ago said my
light accelerator won't work, and you are backing him up saying it is a
non-starter.
I've clearly demonstrated that the light from stars is source dependent,
from the actual data. *I* did that. Not you. Me. I have vision, you do not.
You would never have tried. You want to be the wet blanket, damping out any
fire before it starts. You aren't even interested in studying stars, or what
makes a quasar tick, you have no vision. You know all about what the text
books say, and that satisfies you. You aren't going forward, old son. You
aren't going anywhere, and I'm too old to care much anyway. I'll agree with
you. My idea is a non-starter, because there are always wet blankets to put
the fires of imagination out.
So go on teaching kids what won't work, and pretend you know.
I'm going to teach as many of them as I can how to think for themselves, not
believe what they are told. I don't care how many relativists call me idiot,
he who laughs last laughs loudest. I may not convince many, but I may just
convince one that is an intelligent thinker, not just a pseudo-intelligent
data sponge that can absorb text books and echo them verbatim.
My light accelerator will be built, someday, and I'll roll over in my grave
laughing my arse back to oblivion.
Androcles