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Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox

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Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox
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RE: Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox
August 13, 2016 at 3:18 pm
(August 13, 2016 at 1:28 am)Alex K Wrote:
(August 12, 2016 at 7:13 pm)Gemini Wrote: That does make more sense to me than the Andromeda paradox. It leaves me wondering how physics constrains our understanding of time though. Given relativity, would it be possible in principle for there to be an omnipresent being (like God) who is simultaneously experiencing events that are occurring in distant galaxies?

Yes, sure.

Thanks for answering this for me, by the way. It's been nagging at me for three years now...
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RE: Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox - by Gemini - August 13, 2016 at 3:18 pm

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