Light speed from its origin is fixed and is distinct from relative velocity with respect to objects

What is it about?

The work on relativity described by Newton and Einstein are reconciled. True time and velocity magnitudes are absolute, while all measurements of these quantities are relative and subject to error, whether methodologic or perceptual. Light speed with respect to its own instantaneous coordinate in space is fixed and thus special with its total speed being known regardless of any motion of its source or a detector. However, the relative velocity between a light front and a moving object is relative and depends on the velocity of the object. Thus there is one single time for any particular event to occur, even though moving observers can compute relative values that are different from the true value because of their own motion.

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Why is it important?

The results here indicate why time dilation due to motion is a perceptual error where true time for any event is absolute (Newton) regardless of any unattached observer motion. This distinguishes the true postulates of special relativity from false extrapolations that have been made and are widely accepted.