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Subject: Re: Speed Of Light
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 11:36:00 EDT
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Jeff,
     You ask good questions.  What you are struggling with is the
fundamental observable paradox that led Albert Einstein to the Theory
of Relativity.  The speed of light (or any electromagnetic wave)
*in a vacuum* is never relative.  It is always absolute -- a constant --
and is independent of the motion of the observer.  Now wavelength, i.e.
color in the case of light, is something else.