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Just Chat! / Re: What to do if your question is too long to fit in the title bar?
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Right, i'll have a go. My question concerns the historic break with the Newtonian paradigm around the time when relativity was developing(SR). The speed of light,(1) radiating from a moving object and (2) impinging on a moving object are decreed by SR to be exactly c, regardless of the speed of the object. (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. (2) However conflicts with Newton as one would imagine that the speeds would be additive/subtractive. 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.