From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu May 27 1999 - 09:54:39 MDT
I like Eugene's ambition of a >HTS, but I think we need to integrate a
space standard too. After all, we will be dealing with relativistic
stuff and simultanity will becomre tricky (one could set up some kind
of "mean universal hyperbolic time" based on the "flattest" spacelike
slices we can foliate the universe with, but the precision will be
troublesome).
Maybe one could do something exactly corresponding to the time format
to measure space, but the coordinate system will be tough. The
topology censorship conjecture might make spacetime a bit more boring
that we have hoped, but it is still bendy and tricky. Some way of
translating local maps into an atlas? This sounds like an area where
differential geometry and computational geometry could come in handy.
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