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Use this tag for questions related to how objects move relative to other objects dependent on your frame of reference, and how this applies to special relativity.

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How can any speed be defined as a constant?

It is counter intuitive, this question or variants of it get asked a lot. Surely if you're travelling towards a beam of light it will appear to be travelling faster? The answer is it won't, every iner …
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What does an observer in a reference frame moving with velocity of light see, when another r...

There is no such thing as a "reference frame moving with velocity $c$". If you use the Lorentz transformations to boost into a frame moving at the speed of light you end up dividing by zero in the gam …
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