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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by wolfendin on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:59PM (#34940402)
This confuses the ability to access information about events with the process of accessing information about events.

Things happen at the earliest possible moment I could know about them.

I was able to get that information about my friend yesterday, I just didn’t.

I couldn’t have learned about this 26,000 years ago.

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by codethief on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:45AM (#34944809)
I'm not confusing anything. I was merely stating what General Relativity tells us in precise mathematical terms: Time passes between the event of something happening and the event when light/information from that first event first reaches us (or could theoretically reach us). This is reflected by a delta in the time coordinates of the involved events.

> Things happen at the earliest possible moment I could know about them.

You're of course free to define the word "happen" this way but among physicists you'd be the only one in doing so.

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