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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's literally the thought experiment Einstein lays out in his book on Special and General Relativity.

Now, let's say you are on a train moving at 0.1 C and you observe a lightning bolt striking the front and the back of the train at the same time...