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[Damo2600]

Those of you who have read the explanation and are not totally marred by the ongoing conversation here is a quote from someone who has been studying Relativity for 50 years. No names as a lot of trashing can go on. This is a statement they made after they had read my explanation:

'Ah, now you are moving from "how" to "why", and that is a whole
different ballgame. Science can
give you explanations as a chain of cause and effect, but the bottom
line is what IS, and what can be demonstrated. As to WHY the speed of
light is 3 x 10^8 mps and not something else, and WHY it is constant in
every reference frame, cannot be explained at our present level of
knowledge.'

'Most likely it is to do with the very structure of spacetime itself. QT
predicts that space and time are quantised, and the clue probably lies
in just how they are quantised, but as yet we only have speculations
about this... . Will we ever have
the *whole* story? Probably not....'

Josephine