> Paul, let a muon move downwards towards Norway at 2c.
> Is the Earth rushing towards that muon at 2c?
>
> If so, one millisecond later, let another muon move donwnwards towards New
> Zealand at 2c.
> Has the Earth suddenly experienced an acceleration of -4000c/sec2.
>
> I didn't feel a thing, did you?
>
>
>
> HW.
> www.users.bigpond.com/hewn/index.htm
>
> Sometimes I feel like a complete failure.
> The most useful thing I have ever done is prove Einstein wrong.

H.Wilsons site has may things correct. I note, for ecample, that he uses a 
thought experiment which is essentially identical to one published in "The 
Einstein Hoax" in 1997 at 
http://members.isp.com/einsteinhoax@isp.com/einsteinhoax/site.htm.
In absolute terms the velocity of light is different in different refernce 
frames and what is overloole is the fact that the Relativity concepts reveal 
tha matter uses the velocity of light to control its parameters. As a 
result, in order for the locally observed laws of nature to be maintained, 
matter must adjust its properties in terms of length and time to conceal the 
absolute change from a local observer. (To complete the triad, the Lorentz 
Transformation for force is unity. The rules of Dimensional Analysis allow 
the Lorentz Transformations for all other phyhsical observations to be 
determined.)  It is not mysterious, it should be obvious to anyone who takes 
the trouble to think it through,