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> Has anyone ever precisely measured directly the relative velocity
> between two moving objects at every-day-life velocities, and
> found a difference between the result of the classic velocity
> addition formula and the relativistic velocity composition formula?
> To use your words: "The answer is NO".
> No one has done an experiment where a velocity of 10 m/s was
> combined with a velocity of 10 m/s, which gave exactly
> 20.00000000000000 m/s like predicted by the classic theory, as
> opposed to the 19.99999999999998 m/s that is predicted by
> relativity theory.
> There is no experimental basis for preferring the classic over the
> relativistic formula. The only basis one could have for doing so, is
> purely philosophical, which in your case is obviously a euphemism
> for psychopathological.
> 
> This is a killer argument and you know it. The fact that you never
> give a decent reply to it, demonstrates your malicious agenda, or
> at best, your autistic imbecility.

Nice story, actually straw man argument to divert attention -- as
always -- from the main issue which is that the relativistic velocity
composition formula CANNOT be tested experimentally at relativistic
speeds, or for that purpose at any speed.

Mike