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[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

I always thought that this would be a similar issue with time machines. Go back even 1 second and you're floating in the void.

[โ€“] exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 weeks ago

Well, but general relativity teaches us that all coordinate systems (also constantly moving, but not accelerating ones) are equally relevant. This means that the one with earth as it's origin is as correct as one where with the center of the galaxy (or the sun ) as is every other. So the one where earth moves somehow through space is just as random as any other.

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