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teodorakis
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Hello, i am studyig the special relativity for a while and actually mathematics isn't so difficult but cenceptually it's very unnatural to me.Anyway, first i want to ask about michelson morley experiment, in that experiment light beam which goes in a zigzag path, it's assumed that light goes this path with c, speed of light.But isn't this the use of constant speed of light postulate which is not known yet? Or if we accept the galilean transformation this speed should be c+u(speed of the apparatus)(vectorally), like if you're in a train moving with speed of u in +x direciton you throw the ball with c in +y direction and the speed of the train is u in x direction, to the person in an inertial reference frame outside the train the speed of the ball is u+c(vectorally), but in case of light we can't do that? Light travels at speed c to all observers, but in michelson morley experiment this is not known yet, what do i missing?