a philosopher of science made a case that if you grok relativity that's like a Universal Here
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"The real Now is the time experienced at the Greenwich observatory and everything else is distorted"
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I think this time not existing thing actually will make my time travel story easier to write
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"Are we both wishing on the same star at this moment" becomes an unanswerable question
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My basic soft science handwave is that specifically triggering a controlled supernova >
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> allows you to essentially create a new light come starting at a location of your choice
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But later through discovering literally inarticulable in human thought ideas AI is able >
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> to break light cones and transnavigate universes
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what we've been talking about is special relativity
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it's "special" bc it's the special case where the graph is smooth and flat
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general relativity is the theory of what it looks like when it's bent and curved
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which is what gravity is
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and that's why the sci-fi explanation for breaking the "speed of light" barrier etc is "warping space"
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