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I suppose those continue working fine in very local systems (contained in a ball of a few light-seconds radius) whose components move at speeds where relativist
by gunnihinn 8y ago
I suppose those continue working fine in very local systems (contained in a ball of a few light-seconds radius) whose components move at speeds where relativistic effects can be discarded. Drop those constraints and you also need to drop even system-local globality because of relativity.
- gunnihinn 8y agoYou _could_ introduce the One True Lamport Clock, and as long as you're in its light cone you can get global syncronization, but that comes at the cost of having to learn a lot about patience.
- AllegedAlec 8y agoThat would only work up until the point at which we start to travel at portions of c.