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If you put a lamp on the front of a train going 100 m/s, does the light coming out of the lamp go C+100?
If yes then the fan will totally blow the wifis all over the place and give better signal
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...