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Lies:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/204892
"In their namesake experiment, Albert Michelson (a physicist who won
the Nobel Prize in 1907) and Edward Morley (a chemist) showed that the
speed of light is always the same (now known to be 186,282 miles per
second) relative to stationary observers as well as moving ones.
Nothing but light has this property: if you are approaching a car
that's moving 30 miles per hour, and you're moving 30mph as well, the
approaching car appears to be coming at you at 60 mph. Not so with
light. If you are traveling at the speed of light, designated c,
toward a light beam moving directly toward you, it appears to be
approaching at c, not 2c."

Truth:

In their namesake experiment, Albert Michelson (a physicist who won
the Nobel Prize in 1907) and Edward Morley (a chemist) showed (without
knowing it) that the speed of light varies with the speed of the light
source v in accordance with the equation c'=c+v given by Newton's
emission theory of light. If you are approaching a car that's moving
30 miles per hour, and you're moving 30mph as well, the approaching
car appears to be coming at you at 60 mph. So with light. If you are
traveling at the speed of light, designated c where c is the speed of
light relative to the light source, toward a light beam moving
directly toward you, it appears to be approaching at 2c.

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