Re: The speed of light revisited

"PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Spaceman wrote:
| > Ok,
| > I will admit light always leaves it source at c.
| > (sound always leaves it source the same way)
| >
| > But how can a lightsource's light be constant
| > to say an object traveling towards it at 0.5c.
| >
| > Let's say a lightsource is here on Earth.
| > so it is in a rest frame WRT to Earth,
| > and light moving away from such a source
| > is traveling at c outward from it.
| > How could such a lightspeed still be the same speed
| > to an object heading towards it at 0.5c?
| > How can light violate relative motion like that?
|
| Well, you have one of two conclusions that you might draw from that.
| Either:
| 1. The speed of light is not constant to all observers.
| 2. The rule for finding relative velocity as a simple sum or difference
| is wrong.
|
| The second is hard to give up,

Then that is your problem.
you can't give the answer huh?

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