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RE: RE: Speed Of Light

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Posted by Nighttrader on May 31, 2000 20:23:09 UTC

The principles of Special Relativity
are solely based on the fact that the speed of light is the same for every observer in any frame. Although everybody (including me) is reluctant to image that the "additive" property of velocities (as it is in a Galilean system) is not valid any more. Sorry, that`s the way it is.

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