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I've searched the archives but can't find an alternate explanation for why the velocity of Light & the velocity of its source_aren't_additive.I'm resubmitting my original ques.#1167507035.Ph Light's velocity seems to be "constant" & not additive. Regardless of motion of its source, Lt's velocity measures 300,000k/s in a "vacuum". While the notion of "The Ether" has been discarded, certainly Lt velocity is measured in an "Environment" ( "vacuum" etc.) that is NOT quantumlly empty. Is it remotely possible that this "Quantum Environment" itself is the limiting factor-ie nothing can propagate within "IT" ( be it "Vacuum","Fabric of Space","Field" etc ) more rapidly than 300,000k/s ? Is it possible that Lt's max_native_velocity is really, say..600,000k/s BUT our Universe's "Quantum Vacuum Environment" can't "transmit" it faster than 300,000k/s max ? Maybe Lt speed_is_additive but we can't practically discern it. Perhaps a fighter plane traveling at 1k/s projects Lt beam ahead that theoretically_would_measure at 600,001k/s ( to an observer ) OR projects it behind so it_would_measure 599,999k/s, EXCEPT that,in each case,current "Environment" just can't "transmit" energy faster than 300,000k/s, so the observed velocities*appear*constant & measure at 300,000k/s.?? Please comment on the possibility of the "Environment" as the limiting factor in Lt velocity.Thank You
Re: 'Vacuum' itself constraining 'actual' Light velocity?
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