Re: Singularity worship

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Dec 14 1996 - 17:21:06 MST

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> >General relativity says the speed of light is whatever I
> >make it.
>
> I don't know what you mean, General Relativity says the space-time distance
> between 2 events is the same in any frame of reference.

No, that's special relativity.
GR is the bit about gravity being due to the curvature of space-time.

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