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by all-fakes 2194 days ago
Sorry, can you explain why the velocities should add that way? I've always just seen velocities add like regular old vectors, so this looks very strange.
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Relativity. If they could add that way, you would get 300 megameters/s, which is breaking the speed of light.
That'd be special relativity for you - nothing ever exceeds the speed of light, hence a corrective factor needs to be applied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity

Relativistic effects.