From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 21:12:08 MDT
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 04:13 PM, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> IANAP. With that in mind, my understanding goes something like this:
> The instrument is attracted to where the star's projected position is,
> according to the star's velocity in the past. This is because of the
> way the star's velocity bends the potential well generated by the
> star. If you're one light-minute away, you are not attracted to where
> the star is now. You're attracted to where, one minute ago, the star
> would have been in one minute, had it continued on at the same
> velocity it had one minute ago, from the position it had one minute
> ago. (I'm not quite sure if acceleration is supposed to be taken into
> account as well, or maybe it was some other property of the star's
> behavior aside from or in addition to the velocity, but I think this
> is roughly how it goes...)
I don't see how future acceleration could be taken into account in this
scenario, so
I'll assume that it isn't.
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