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Originally posted by Evad@Jun 20 2005, 03:40 PM
Now it says in this book, that if you put a train and a beam of light next to each other, and
measure their speeds relitive to each other then this will mean that the speed of light is slower then 300,00 km/s. speed of light - trains velocity=>300,00 km/s, and this is a problem for some reason?. Why? And how? The light is still moving at 300,000 km/s reletive to a stationary body reference right? Does the law of propagation of light mean that that a light beam should always be going 300,00 km/s faster then everything or what? Hope I'm making sence.
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But does a stationary observer is really stationary? For example i'm stationary on my chair but i'm on the rotating surface of the Earth: so i'm faster than a train, but light beams overtake me at lightspeed, and not at lightspeed-(rotation velocity of the Earth) !!!
A light beam isn't 300000km/s faster than everything, but it should be 300000km/s for every observer