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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by eru on Monday February 05, 2024 @08:03PM (#39269440)
Oh, 'relativity' might not have a preferred speed. But our universe absolute does.

It's the inertial frame of reference that makes the cosmic microwave background look most uniform. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoving_and_proper_distances#...

> A comoving observer is the only observer who will perceive the universe, including the cosmic microwave background radiation, to be isotropic. Non-comoving observers will see regions of the sky systematically blue-shifted or red-shifted. Thus isotropy, particularly isotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, defines a special local frame of reference called the comoving frame. The velocity of an observer relative to the local comoving frame is called the peculiar velocity of the observer.

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