Fish and Caves

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Dec 2010, 16:37 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:37:46 -0800
Subject: (urth) Fish and Caves
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2010/12/22 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:

> So it would take ages for them to reach Urth, but the time is cut short by
> time-travel, of which they are unaware, and yet they end up on Urth at what
> is generally considered the present time?

Actually, when dealing with interstellar distances the concept of "the
present time" is meaningless due to the C-limit and related
(relativistic) effects. Wolfe has established pretty clearly that
relativity-as-we-know-it applies to the Briahtic universe.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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