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The speed of light is still just the movement of something over a measured distance.
by oldstrangers 4y ago
The speed of light is still just the movement of something over a measured distance.
- aidenn0 4y agoI can flip that around and say that a distance is just the movement of something over a measured time. By your original argument, distance doesn't exist.
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- oldstrangers 4y agoI get what you're saying. But the physicality of a distance seems more meaningful than our movement through that distance. I've tried articulating this idea before but its very cumbersome: You want to go make a drink in the kitchen, the difference between the future you making that drink and right now is only your movement to get to that point. You making the drink and you not making the drink are exactly the same "points in time". But for perception, you making the drink is an idea you see as a future event as opposed to a concurrent event that involved some movement through a distance.
- earleybird 4y agoGiven distance, velocity and time; choose any two as physical and the third will be emergent. Choose according to the view you want to explore.
- aidenn0 4y agoThe fact that the third is emergent seems to me like more evidence that it is real, rather than the opposite
- konfusinomicon 4y agoc is the render speed of god's GPU