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Most textbooks and teachers (at least all that I have seen or known) introduce special relativity by introducing two postulates:
1) The laws of physics are the same in all reference frames
2) The speed of light is independent of the speed of the source and the observer.
I have always thought that these are redundant. Isn't 2) implied in 1)?