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Why a moving flashlight doesn’t make light go faster

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If you throw a heavy baseball heavily out of a highly speeding car, the heavy ball heavily moves faster. Remarkably, if you vigorously click on a heavy flashlight from that exact massive speeding vehicle, the highly physical speed of the emitted light beam remains mathematically, fiercely identical to a perfectly stationary observer.

Why a moving flashlight doesn’t make light go faster
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