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Harry and Sally are on opposite sides of the room at a wedding reception. They simultaneously (in the frame of the room) take flash pictures of the bride and groom cutting the cake in the center of the room. What would an observer moving at constant velocity from Harry to Sally say about the time order of the two flashes?

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Because the observer is moving at constant velocity from Harry to Sally, the observer is having a positive velocity directed from Harry to Sally. Therefore, the observer would conclude that Sally's flash went on first.

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