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What experiments/theory led to the conclusion that light impinging on a moving object at any arbitrary speed( <c) would always arrive at c?
What I want to know is, in the early developmental stages of relativity(ie the work of Lorentz), when and how it was determined that in the case of light hitting a moving object the speeds would no longer be additive/subtractive.
(1) does not, in my opinion, require any postulate from relativity: once emitted the speed of the radiation will be determined solely by μ and ε.
The speed of light,(1) radiating from a moving object
What experiments/theory led to the conclusion that light impinging on a moving object at any arbitrary speed( <c) would always arrive at c? I have struggled with the wording of this question and am still not satisfied with it.