Re: Ironic SAA

Margo Schulter wrote:
What strikes me is that from either an observational or theoretical
point of view, the precise conventions we use for timekeeping -- or
RA and Dec or whatever -- are pretty provincial matters compared to
the scale of the universe, or even of our own Milky.

Of course they are, as they must always be. In fact it is the very idea of a universal system of coordinates or timekeeping that is "provincial." That is is childlike error that Gerald--who clearly suffers from a serious metal illness--is making.

Where is the center of the Universe? Wherever the observer is standing. What time is it, truly? Whatever time the observer thinks it is. Ask a different observer, get a different answer. That is the true universal truth--that there is no such thing as a universal time or coordinate frame of reference.

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