I apologize for my hostile response. You have been extremely helpful and this was out of line. Please see this recent HN post from today which is extremely re

I apologize for my hostile response. You have been extremely helpful and this was out of line. Please see this recent HN post from today which is extremely relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22839035 Also please consider that in newtonian mechanics the potential energy of interaction assumes an instantaneous propagation of signals between 2 particles, and there is no issue in practice with this approximation, because the speed of light is so large compared to the time scales of macroscopic phenomenon. The ideas we have been discussing is the same type of regime where its an asymptotic limit, and where these types of assumptions are quite physical and very realistic. I have been working so hard for the past 3 weeks on a generalization of John Conways The Game of Life and he just died so I am pretty emotional right now. I'm sorry we had to come to this point, where you have provided enough information for me to continue my work, but had to have such a confrontational fight over who understands the theory of relativity better. I can assure you, I understand the point you are making about the speed of light. Let me remind you, the constant speed of light is only constant in a vacuum. In air the speed is not the same as water, and gravitational fields can bend the path of light. I hope in the future we can have a physics discussion as equals instead of getting into a fight when I have been crying over the death of one of my absolute greatest personal heroes