> If there's anything the universe is, it's Eventually Consistent. Please disregard this inconsistency guff! The Universe isn't Eventually Consistent. It's sim

> If there's anything the universe is, it's Eventually Consistent. Please disregard this inconsistency guff! The Universe isn't Eventually Consistent. It's simply consistent. What's really going on, is that some programmers don't understand relativity. Relativity doesn't actually say that everyone gets their own reality. There is a consistent consensual reality. Spacetime intervals are consistent between all observers. The time ordering of events changes depending on the observer's POV and relative motion, but there is an underlying consistent reality that's the same for everybody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAEHKAR5hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAEHKAR5hU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFrISfN7jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFrISfN7jo The "Spacetime Globe" by Minute Physics is the most helpful thing I've seen, flat out, for understanding relativity. > Knowledge of events in our universe is like an immutable, append-only database This is correct. Relativity just says that different users get different results, depending on how they query. The underlying database is the same for everybody. (Some parts of it are forbidden access, of course.) Programmers have been causing physicists to facepalm since at least the USENET days. I should know. I was one of them!