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> velocities don't add like that relativistically and I think you'd still see it as travelling at 1.0c

Not indefinitely. Sure, if you accelerated for a short enough time in the direction of the neutrino, you might still be within your measurement error and so not have learned anything. But that just means you need to accelerate for a longer time. For any given measurement accuracy, you will be able to calculate how long you need to accelerate, by your clock, to definitely distinguish the two cases. Relativistic velocity addition does not change that fact. All it changes is the details of that calculation; yes, for a given measurement accuracy, you need to accelerate for a longer time, by your clock, to definitely distinguish the cases than you would if velocity addition were linear. But that doesn't mean relativistic velocity addition makes it impossible to distinguish the cases at all, ever. It doesn't.



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