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		mcswell on Sept 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Physicist Has Discovered Math That Makes 'Parado... I think the problem is worse than this. There is no universal coordinate system, no 0x0x0 coordinate to measure everything from. The Earth is moving wrt the galactic center, the galactic center is moving wrt...what? The Andromeda galaxy? Why should that galaxy be special? And the local cluster is moving wrt...what? All the other galaxy clusters, I suppose, but what does that mean?

sktguha on Sept 27, 2020 [–]

indeed . so the galaxy cluster might have moved by a really massive distance, assuming even if there is some universal coordinate system

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