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Galilean Relativity: Can Experiments Tell Motion Relative to Other Frames?
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[QUOTE="Ibix, post: 5501631, member: 365269"] Imagine that the speed of light varied with direction (i.e. light behaved like a wave in a medium), except in one frame in which it is isotropic. That would hint that there was something special about the frame where the speed is isotropic, and how much the speed varied in your chosen frame would tell you how fast you were going with respect to that special frame. In our universe, you can't do this (or anything analogous) by any means we are aware of. [/QUOTE]
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