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    Addition of Velocities: A photon emitted backwards

    Ah yes, correct mathematics would solve my problem. Thank you for pointing out my mistake and for the help.
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    Addition of Velocities: A photon emitted backwards

    Ok, but let's then look at what happens when the rocket gets really really really really close to c...to do this we take a limit as vrel → 1. Then if you follow through the steps of my post, I eventually get an answer of ∞. So even if we remove the impossibility, my logic still has a flaw...
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    Addition of Velocities: A photon emitted backwards

    So I just finished learning about the derivation of the addition of velocities...this should imply that I am a newcomer to relativity. So here's my question: We have a rocket that is traveling away from a lab at the relative velocity of c. (I know this is impossible because it would take...
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