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This is fascinating stuff. I had my first lecture on this idea today so it's very new to me. I am being a little stubborn because I want to make sure I have this idea conceptually correct before I go deeper. I'm trying to comprehend just how big this idea is since most of our experience of...

Wouldn't Shirley see the system fail for no apparent reason? The ball impacts were not simultaneous thus the planet should not explode.

Carl's. But more significantly, the reference frame of the explosives or the AND gate that decides when they go off.

The sensors would be in slightly different locations, but I didn't think that would be significant. Now I'm questioning that. Practically, there would be a signal propagation delay difference and this error tolerance must be built into the design of the system. Since this mechanism must be...

Let's say you have a planet rigged to explode only if two bowling balls hit respective sensors at the same time. An unfortunate observer, call him Carl, releases two bowling balls at the same time from his reference frame. Meanwhile, Shirley passes by at nearly the speed of light. From Shirley's...