fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 8 days agoThe speed of lightmander.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square125linkfedilinkarrow-up1673arrow-down19
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minus-squarewebghost0101@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·8 days agoI think the answer is that you are only traveling at almost light speed from reference frame of your start position. The light of the lamp travels at light speed from your own reference speed which to you in a vacuum is 0. Anyone correct if wrong please?
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoAny observations wouldn’t see anything but the whole light I believe this is explained by Einstein in his example of the train in the Theory of Relativity
I think the answer is that you are only traveling at almost light speed from reference frame of your start position.
The light of the lamp travels at light speed from your own reference speed which to you in a vacuum is 0.
Anyone correct if wrong please?
Any observations wouldn’t see anything but the whole light
I believe this is explained by Einstein in his example of the train in the Theory of Relativity