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So he postulated the speed of light to be “c” relative to “empty space”, thinking that “empty space” was pretty much “stationary” with all the stationary and “fixed” stars.
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No. No no no no no. SR doesn't say anything about space. |
Here’s a direct quote of the original “constancy” postulate, from “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, 1905:
”light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity c which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body.”