• FMT99@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This implies there’s an absolute center to the universe relative to which the earth moves but spirits do not.

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      5 months ago

      Or you just maintain your velocity at death. With no other forces, that’s the way you head forever

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        5 months ago

        But this character died stationary on the floor. Unless it’s the Earth moving away from her as part of its normal orbit, in which case she’ll get to visit it again soon

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          5 months ago

          If the only force no longer acting on her is gravity, she just instantly got a massive new vector

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      5 months ago

      There absolutely is a coordinate system like that, in the comic it would be the spirit’s coordinate system with them at the center. There actually is an absolute center of the universe and it is you and me, and everything else in the universe is at the center of it’s universe (depending on your definition of the universe). That’s what special relativity is all about, each thing is at the center of it’s own universe and you have to translate any measurements between coordinate systems.

      All the comic implies is that a sprit doesn’t follow null geodesics, but that’s general relativity.

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      I think they simply became totally massless and is no longer affected by gravity.