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Ken Seto: Seto's Special Principle of Simultaneity  (27-Feb-2002)

> > So it doesn't bother you that your above assumptions means that the
> > track observer can know the speed (c) and the postion of the photon
> > simultaneously??? Do you realize that this violates the uncertainty
> > principle??
>
> Since we, knowing the positions of the photons, cannot know
> at which speed they are moving, how can you then know that the two men
> are hit by the photons simultaneously?

The only thing that the track guy know for sure is that the constant light
speed postulate holds in the train. From that he can conclude that the
photons hit both men simultaneously.

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