<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Anders <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Cosmologists are totally fine with a lot of temporal coordinate systems. Cosmological time and co-moving time are pretty common ones, and they make it possible to talk about "now" in regions outside our light cone:<br>
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.3823v1.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.382<wbr>3v1.pdf</a><br>
Moving observers would see a different simultaneity, but since matter in the universe are roughly static relative to co-moving space coordinates this kind of simultaneity makes sense.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### And Now For Something Completely Different - I just noticed you are reading and commenting on the Unsong!</div><div><br></div><div>A most uproariously complex and multi-level intellectually entertaining prose, shading into poetry, isn't it? And morally uplifting to boot!</div><div><br></div><div>What amazes me is that Scott (or whatever his name is), while being a good atheist, exhibits such a nuanced command of the holy books. A true Renaissance intellect who engages SJWs in ruthless combat.</div><div><br></div><div>Extropians, if you haven't read the Unsong, do it now.</div><div><br></div><div>RafaĆ</div></div>
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