Motivated by the result of the Michelson-Morley experiment, Albert Einstein formulated the following principle of the constancy of light speed:
Any ray of light moves in the “stationary” system of co-ordinates with the determined velocity \(c\), whether the ray be emitted by a stationary or by a moving body.
A more common formulation of this principle is the following:
The speed of light is constant in vacuum in all inertial reference frames (i.e. it is independent from the movement of the inertial reference frame or the observer in it).
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