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Old 29-November-2005, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by madman
another way of showing the distance that light can travel in this exercise is by modelling it as a wave.

this negates the problem of interception, since the wave will travel in all directions.

but still it can't reach the mirror in the unit amount of time.
That's assuming that a unit amount of time remains constant. But of course that's exactly the assumption that Einstein is questioning.