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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns
Like I'm 95% sure that anaesthetic exposure in childhood is why I've always had a vague sense of the worldview we're discussing
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
living 4th dimensionally just doesnt seem even purposeful. artistic maybe, but nothing can be changed or notably accomplished.
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Replying to @Plutoburns
Well, here's the part that still bugs me and bugged me before seeing the movie and was part of why relativity messes with me
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns
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@arthur_affect) back in for this one. So what I still don't get is how light cones and motion work together1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
A light cone is, in the Rietdikij-Putnam argument someone linked earlier, the reality that an observer in a particular standpoint has?
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Now, I understand that "observer" here does not actually mean "conscious thinking observer" necessarily
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But what I fail to understand is why a coherent reality is maintained by anything that moves slower than light
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It intuitively seems as if moving any distance at any speed (slightly) changes your light cone, and that given that we are in motion >
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> at very high speeds, observably relativistic, on a cosmic scale relative to a lot of things, we should be CHANGING light cones
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A light cone is a 4D structure drawn on a space-time diagram. It doesn't change, it just is
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