Singularity-worship

John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Sun, 15 Dec 1996 08:08:46 -0800 (PST)


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On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> Wrote:

>Eliezer:
>General relativity says the speed of light is whatever I
>make it.

>John:
>I don't know what you mean, General Relativity says the
>space-time distance between 2 events is the same in any
>frame of reference.

>John:
>No, that's special relativity. GR is the bit about gravity
>being due to the curvature of space-time.

Yeah, General Relativity says that mass and pressure warp space-time and that
any particle being accelerated by no force except gravity will move in a
geodesic, that is, the shortest path between two points on the surface of a
warped object. The geodesic on the 3 dimensional surface of 4 dimensional
space-time at 93 million miles from the sun is the Earth's orbit.

However, neither Special, General, or any other theory I've heard of says
"The speed of light is whatever I make it".

John k Clark johnkc@well.com

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