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Measure absolute speed
Currently I'm 17 years old, going to secondary school. So, my ideas might be totally wrong...
I know that everything is relative. In the example of speed, the earth moves, and the galaxy moves, etc.
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Galileo's dictum and how light cannot violate it
Okay. So I've been told that the speed of light is constant and cannot violate Galileo's dictum, but even if it weren't constant (in a vacuum), how would it violate it anyway?
Say you are on a train ...
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Relative Speed vs speed of light [duplicate]
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Travelling faster than the speed of light
Someting almost faster than light traveling on something else almost faster than light
I've got two questions which are ...
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What would happen to electronic circuits when traveling near the speed of light?
Imagine a space ship, loaded with all sorts of computer systems, traveling near the speed of light.
Electricity itself is very fast, and can reach speeds close the speed of light. (up to 99% ...
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Chosing a reference frame in which the earth is at rest and doesn't rotate
We may choose a non-rotating earth as our reference frame and ask ourselves: how about the planetary and stellar motions. A star at a distance of 10 million light years would turn around the earth in ...
