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Old 14-08-2011, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by taxman View Post
Let's say you are sitting on the nose of a ship traveling 1 meter per second slower than the speed of light and I am watching you from a stationary point. If you point a torch in the direction you are travelling in and switch it on, after one second, you will see the light travel its approximate 300 million meters in front of you, but I will only see it one meter in front of you.
Ah.. Isn't this Wrong?
In the ship your traveling at 299,000 Mil mt/sec the torch light should theoreticaly be gaining 1Mt per second in front of you ?
The speed of light can not increase to 599,000 Mt / sec
The speed of light is constant from all vantage points

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