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Originally Posted by CraigS
Not sure if this'll work, but the question is, can someone explain what this gif is showing?
The original link is here (if the gif upload doesn't work).
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Click on the gif in the article, there's an explanation as to what's going on there in the gif's description.
What the gif is explaining is that the velocity of light is a constant from either fleets perspective (communication between the ships), but that the apparent paths taken by the light beams from the perspective of the opposite fleet appears to take a diagonal path between the ships at a time which is also apparently longer than the actual communication time between the ships. The effect of time dilation in transverse motion. All due to the relative motion (inertial frames of reference) between the two fleets.