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Thank you for your thought out and quick responses! I can see now how time dilation need not be considered and that this is actually a solved by Einstein’s original train/platform thought experiment- I think I was momentarily confused by thinking of sound waves and wondering how light could get...

I am trying to understand a thought experiment I just posed, which is: if an observer is traveling near the speed of light, and sends out two photons; one in the direction of travel and one in the opposite direction, how does general relativity account for time dilation? The photon "in front"...