[TML] White Dwarfs, Black Holes & 100 Diameters

[Anthony Jackson]

Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

> Ummm... No.  This is specifically giving up relativity; the whole point
> of relativity was that there IS no preferred frame of reference.  You're
> trying to establish one here.

Um. Not totally. There is nothing preventing you from measuring the 
average speed of a system and declaring that to be a speed of 0. It 
won't have any special effects within relativity, but it's reasonably 
well defined.

> My problem with the entire relativity-causality-ftl problem has been
> that C, the speed of light in vacuum, has been treated as privileged,
> without an adequate explanation as to WHY.  If (assume FTL) I can
> achieve effective speeds greater than C, why am I doing my observations
> with plain old C-capped methods?  I'll get my information on the state
> of the universe via the same FTL method, and if I do, all of the
> paradoxes appear to fall away.

Because the point about C is that it appears to be the same velocity to 
all observers, regardless of reference frame.