[TML] White Dwarfs, Black Holes & 100 Diameters

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 5 Nov 2007 at 9:37, Anthony Jackson wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but the idea of all jumps being figured with respect to that 
reference frame *does* constitute a preferred frame of reference. 
Which violates relativity.
 

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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