bad idea of the night: a COBOL-like game scripting language called COBOLD
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not just unsatisfying, it would imply that experimental proof of theory was some sort of accident
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which is philosophically not impossible but is another form of "unsatisfying"
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time being objectively different in some way from xyz is in fact a mainstream opinion
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but it doesn't change the fact that xyzt spacetime is one coherent system
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which is the point of "Here = Now"
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the point is to challenge the intuitive palatability of privileging one frame of reference
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we find it intuitively acceptable to privilege a specific Now but reject a specific Here
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but the two are scientifically (and I would argue philosophically) inseparable
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and that's the thing, the copernican principle wasn't always intuitive to us
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before Copernicus saying Jerusalem was the metaphysical center of the universe was fine
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now, though, even most lay people would rebel against saying there's a privileged point in space
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