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Old 22-June-2004, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by AstroSmurf
swansont, sorry, but you're wrong in this. You have to have the observing camera in motion to see any simultaneity effects; just changing its location won't affect simultaneity as relativity sees it. This is analogous to when we talk of measing time dilation with frequencies; the classical, "naive" effects have already been removed from the situation so that only the effects we're interested in remain.
I think maybe you aren't seeing the point I'm trying to make. At this point I'm only trying to show that the finite speed of light has implications on measurements. I haven't added motion to the mix.
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