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Old 12-01-2004, 01:54 AM   #38 (permalink)
aKula
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Gmontag is right. Anybody wanting to read more about the subject I would recommend this book. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books
It's really good at explaining the concepts behind relativity and then goes on to look at relativity itself and scenarios like you mentioned.
Also light is self propogating because a moving electric field creates a magnetic field and a moving magnetic field creates an electric field.

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