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I don’t get it, can’t you just set off neutron bomb every second on Earth and use it as a monotonic counter signal? Isn’t that like, speed of light or wavefron

I don’t get it, can’t you just set off neutron bomb every second on Earth and use it as a monotonic counter signal? Isn’t that like, speed of light or wavefront of event propagation in the universe isn’t consistent but unavoidably potato shaped - but if so, wouldn’t it be at least difficult to have multiple potatoes intersecting, or potato being shaped like Klein bottle? Self intersecting potato shaped space-time would be cool, though.

nyrikki 3y ago
The problem is that they aren't 'potato shaped' rotations, they are better thought of as hyperbolic rotations. Simultaneous distant events in Lorentz transformations will all lay on a shared hyperbola not a distorted circle. Really this is beyond typical human intuition and requires math, but here is a quick minutephysics video that quickly demonstrates fairly well it without me typing out a bunch of math that no one wants anyway. https://youtu.be/SrNVsfkGW-0 https://youtu.be/SrNVsfkGW-0
whimsicalism 3y ago
in short, no. not if you want hyperaccurate time keeping