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Old 14-May-2008, 12:47 PM
alainprice alainprice is offline
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They won't see the lights change at the same time.

Your problem is in saying the lights are synchronized. Who are they synchronized for?
Also, you'll have to read a special relativity textbook.

The basic sections you need are the Lorentz transform, the relativity of simultaneity and a few paradoxes. Your answer is found in there.

Einstein goes on to consider a very long rod of length one light year and realizes that it can
t be perfectly solid, due to the fact that any distortions can't even travel at 'c' through the rod.
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