Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!edward From: edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Speed Of Light Message-ID: <1750@ukma.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-May-85 22:32:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.1750 Posted: Fri May 10 22:32:08 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 12-May-85 04:41:47 EDT References: <2073@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 27 [ Eat at Joe's ] You're misinterpreting your own diagram. Light always travels a c. The speed of it's source is irrelevant. Ship B (the one @ 0.1c) will observe the two laser beams to be identical. They'll be red-shifted due to B's motion, but identical. I think. -- edward {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,research}!anlams! -| {mcvax!qtlon,vax135,mddc}!qusavx! -|--> ukma!edward | {decvax,ihnp4,mhuxt,seismo}! -+-> cbosgd! -| {clyde,osu-eddie,ulysses}! ---| "Well, what's on the television then?" "Looks like a penguin." () | |-- Support barrier free design /|--- | \ _ \___/ \=