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...and you're halfway between both, who would get the message first?

For example, let's say the trip is 4 light years long. You reach half the speed of light and you have a laser communication array pointing forward and backward. When you reach the midway point, you send the message to both places. Would they both get the message at the same time or would your destination get it first?

...and you're halfway between both, who would get the message first? For example, let's say the trip is 4 light years long. You reach half the speed of light and you have a laser communication array pointing forward and backward. When you reach the midway point, you send the message to both places. Would they both get the message at the same time or would your destination get it first?

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[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

The really fucked-up part is that the flattening effect only affects the Observer, so the distances between objects in the Universe is never absolute, and always depends on relative velocity. But the Universe isn't REALLY flattening and expanding, it's just that Space and Time are two facets of the same thing, which we call Spacetime, and so since the distances can't "REALLY" be that variable, what happens is that Time moves at a different pace. You see, velocity is a rate of distance (Space) over Time. So Time simply lengthens and foreshortens to every Observer based on his relative velocity to any given object. Mathematically, that's the exact same thing as the DISTANCE changing, since the velocity is the only true variable in the equation.

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