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zouden said:
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zouden said:
Well, time should only completely stop if you go at the speed of light (which is impossible) or if you're in the singularity of a black hole (which is also impossible). The event horizon just defines the area that light cannot escape from; it doesn't mean that there is infinite gravity inside it. But yes, as you approach lightspeed or cross an event horizon, time would almost stop completely

Now we're really off topic

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zouden said:
Huh? Light behaves strangely because you can imagine it behaving strangely?

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zouden said:
Oh, right. But that's quantum physics, not relativity. The Bell test has nothing to do with lightspeed or time dilation. It's much more confusing

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In the general sense, the absolute velocity of any object through space is not a meaningful question according to Einstein's special theory of relativity, which declares that there is no "preferred" inertial frame of reference in space with which to compare the Galaxy's motion. (Motion must always be specified with respect to another object.)

Astronomers believe the Milky Way is moving at approximately 630 km per second relative to the local co-moving frame of reference that moves with the Hubble flow.[44] If the Galaxy is moving at 600 km/s, Earth travels 51.84 million km per day, or more than 18.9 billion km per year, about 4.5 times its closest distance from Pluto. The Milky Way is thought to be moving in the direction of the Great Attractor. The Local Group (a cluster of gravitationally bound galaxies containing, among others, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy) is part of a supercluster called the Local Supercluster, centered near the Virgo Cluster: although they are moving away from each other at 967 km/s as part of the Hubble flow, the velocity is less than would be expected given the 16.8 million pc distance due to the gravitational attraction between the Local Group and the Virgo Cluster.[45]

Another reference frame is provided by the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The Milky Way is moving at around 552 km/s[3] with respect to the photons of the CMB, toward 10.5 right ascension, -24° declination (J2000 epoch, near the center of Hydra). This motion is observed by satellites such as the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) as a dipole contribution to the CMB, as photons in equilibrium in the CMB frame get blue-shifted in the direction of the motion and red-shifted in the opposite direction.

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Turns out we know a lot more about our galaxy's movement than I thought

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BlueCoyote said:
hehe and after bending time, Einstein also bended space, just to make his damned SOL a constant. For me, that stinks big enough

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