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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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Hi Halc, here we go again! My interpretation, which could well be wrong, is that a lot of the ground work for relativity was done by Lorentz, Fitzgerald, Poincare and others and that Einstein had the vision to knit it all together in SR. I certainly was not considering LET(aether! God forbid!). I am somewhat confused by your statement that light emitted by a moving body does not travel at c: suppose an observer measures a body passing by at 0.5c and then it emits a pulse of light- surely in both the frame of the observer and the frame of the emitter the speed of said light pulse will be c? Impinge is a word I have often seen used in this context similar to collide, strike or we could use the biblical term "smite". One final request, Halc, refresh my ageing brain as to the conflict between Maxwell and Newtonian mechanics.