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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] ricecake 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, in this case a moon timezone, and more generally a "space timekeeping framework" makes sense because time actually moves at a different speed on the moon, so epoch times wouldn't actually stay in sync.
If the goal of "time" is to make it easier to reason about simultaneous things, then space makes that way more complicated.
It's just tricky to condense that into a headline that conveys the point.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11150

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The concept of “simultaneous” breaks down over relativistic distances too so that’s equally fucked

[–] ricecake 4 points 7 months ago

Yup. So building a system for "how we build time systems in different reference frames" and "define how we relate those to earth" isn't irrational, just makes for headlines that are either difficult or very misleading.