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what about if they have an impact on the logical conclusions/interpretations of the experimental results, like length contraction? If I am not wrong doesn't the moving observer in the train have to come to the conclusion that the train's length has contracted in the direction of motion?

or maybe i should have said why is the light from the surface of the train "not relevant?"

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can someone furnish me with the concept(s) to study about why light from an object travels differently than one from a source like a star, flashlight, or lightning strike?

maybe this is my difficulty... if you can explain or point me in the right direction to learn about this I am all ears. Thanks in advance.

Really? http://books.google.com/books?id=gQ8LAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=einstein&ei=tondSZLWOpnGywTa_pHyDg#v=onepage&q&f=false" In Einstein's thought experiment Speed of Light(SoL) is accounted for in the case of the experience of lightning but the Sol in respect to the rays of light...

Thank you for the suggested avenue of pursuit.. I will spend some time in the literature tonight!

Thanks for the time pervect.. as you were typing I was bringing that notion of RoS up in the following post :)

It is odd you say that because a large portion of the thought experiments dedicated to the relativity of simultaneity incorporate "SEEING". I just have never heard any physicist account for that small amount of time dedicated to transmission of light in those thought experiments. Granted it is...

Isn't there some kind of discourse related to this somewhere in the philosophy of perception or some similar field of thought in philosophy? This chain of events and processes that you lump together take place both in the mind and the external world right?

Sorry about the post but I am new and not sure of correct category. Quick question though because I believe it is philosophical. Am I correct in thinking that not only is there a delay in respect to internal processing but also a second delay in respect to transmission of light? light emitted...

Thanks for the response Dave. So the would he/she tell me it is meaningless to talk about the star as it "is" currently also?

Hi.. In astronomy we know that when we observe a distant star that we are seeing it the way it looked a long time ago, how long is dependent on the speed of light and the distance between us and that star. It might not even be in existence anymore. Does physics apply the same logic to our...