Originally posted by Johnny Boy:
[QUOTE] The fact that person a is moving at 0.8c from person b and experiences light moving away from him at light speed c, does NOT mean that person b measures a light speed of 1.8c in his reference frame. This is the whole point of special relativity. When measuring light speed in your inertial reference frame (within which you are stationary) you will measure the speed of light as c notwithstanding the speed at which the light source is moving relative to you. Speeds cannot be added linearly when applying special relativity.
then explain how the same photon can be moving at two different speeds at the same time. it cant. person b will see the light speed move at a different speed because his perception of time outside of the ship has been slowed. that is what that means. not that there are two different photons moving at two different speed or that the photon moves at two different speeds.
the only other possibility is that every person is in his or her own universe and everything is duplicated.
please explain in the normal universe how the same thing can move at two different speeds at the same time. it does not matter how special you make it, it cant be two places at the same time. the perception is what you are missing. each person moves at a different rate though time, based on how the time is dilated for them.
ive had a number of armchair scientist try to explain it, but none of them can explain that one point and keep repeating the same thing "its special". a real scientist (and ive read what they say) has no problem with it. nor, if you read the theory without preconcieved ideas, would you. there is only one light speed (though a given medium), and it is not based on anyones perception. your perception of it is based on your speed in relation to it, not vice versa. man is not that important in this universe. we are not masters of it, nor the center of it. it does not base its actions on our desires.
