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Your argument only works in a universe with exactly two newtonian point masses, not a single additional mass. In that universe, time isn't the same as in ours.
by stkdump 5y ago
Your argument only works in a universe with exactly two newtonian point masses, not a single additional mass. In that universe, time isn't the same as in ours. It is perfectly periodic. That you can't figure out the arrow of time in that universe is actually the smaller anomaly.
- dredmorbius 5y agoYes: Thought experiments simplify. That is the point.
- stkdump 5y agoMy point is, that this is so simplified, that it isn't even a clock anymore.