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Old 30-June-2009, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by stutefish View Post
Can somebody please tell me if I understand the gist of the OP correctly?

That is, RussT is claiming that up until now, nobody has accounted for information travel time, when comparing observations made by observers arbitrarily far apart from each other. And that if anybody had accounted for information travel time, they would have rejected Special Relativity at its inception.

Is that correct?
As far as I can tell, that's pretty much it. Its a bit of shame really, as I had hoped for something far more substantive and worthwhile when I read the thread title.