Re:GPS and Relativity
by debrice on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:33PM
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GPS Satellites "live" in our future, meaning our present and our future are real. Whatever you do, you are still free to make your own decision but you should know that you already made that decision.
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Re:GPS and Relativity
by mihai_ionic on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:42PM
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Or, as I prefer to think of it, the state of a distant object is undetermined with respect to your state (in a superposition of all reachable states since your last interaction) until you actually interact with it, at which point both get reconciled into a compatible state.
Of course, it's slightly more complicated than that, because this applies to every particle you're made of individually. And then the particles are actually merely excitations of a field.
I'll leave the rest to actual physicists. :)