>Yes Hilmar,
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>Jos Pols told me about the constant speed of C, regardless of the relative seed of the observer. This is what is most baffling to me, as its seem quite illogical.
I think it is explained by discrepancies both in the time scales and in the length scales (in the direction of movement), for observers travelling at different speeds. In fact, the Theory of Relativity deduces these discrepancies precisely on the basis of the assumption, that the speed of light is constant.
Baffling or not, this is what is observed in several experiments, starting with the Michelson-Morley experiment, around the turn of the century (18th. to 19th. century, that is).
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
