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> If you watch your friend do X right in front of you, would you argue it happened yesterday? If that friend was 671 million miles away, I was say it happened
by Supermancho 4y ago
> If you watch your friend do X right in front of you, would you argue it happened yesterday?
If that friend was 671 million miles away, I was say it happened yesterday. If it was a much smaller distance, I can intervene in the event because the relative effects do not prevent me from interacting.
> They're both valid interpretations.
That's true if you want to accept interpretation without restraint. I prefer consistent interpretations that are compatible with known physics. YMMV
- anamexis 4y agoThere are no consistent interpretations! The photon you're seeing that came from 671 million miles travelled to your eye instantly, from its "perspective."
- codethief 4y ago> There are no consistent interpretations! Of course there are. You're confusing the "relativity" part in "General Relativity" with "anything goes" or "anyone can interpret things however they want, without any rules". I have elaborated on this in my other comment to you[0]: > GR is concerned with objective, well-defined statements. Sometimes a statement might depend on the observer (this is relativity after all) but other observers will still be able to predict what that observer will say because there are clear rules to translate observer-dependent statements between observers. So subjective observer-dependent statements can still be objectively true in this sense. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946704