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What causes the Sagnac effect?
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[QUOTE="Dale, post: 6211813, member: 43978"] The distance that the light travels is different from the distance between the source and target when they are moving. Here is an example that may help you understand the point. Suppose I board a plane in New York entering in the back door and during the flight I slowly walk to the front and deplane in Chicago. Although the back and front of the plane are at all times a couple of hundred feet apart, I traveled more than a thousand miles, not a couple of hundred feet. [/QUOTE]
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