"Mike Cawood, HND BIT" <mike@cawood51.nospaam.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in 
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> 100 years ago, in June 1905, Albert Einstein, who IMO was the greatest
> brain that ever lived, produced his Theory of Special Relativity, which
> showed that the speed of light is approx. 186,000 miles per second,
> measured from any observer, regardless of how fast that observer is
> moving.

 Saying it doesn't show it, and what he actually said was
"the velocity of light in our theory plays the part, physically,
of an infinitely great velocity."
Reference :
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

Androcles.

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