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    Graduate Understanding Relative Velocity and the Speed of Light

    thanks for the responses and sorry for the obvious mistake. Taking the ABC example, what if you took out the rocket launcher and it was just two rockets passing in opposite directions at the same speed, say 0.9c. If each rocket was observing the other, they'd be separating at 1.8c. How is...
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    Graduate Understanding Relative Velocity and the Speed of Light

    question about distance... If two objects move away from each other both at the speed of light, after 1 second will they be approximately 372,000 miles apart?