Ketil Z Malde wrote:
> But of course, it doesn't travel at all through vacuum.
It does through radiation.
> When a king dies, kingship is passed on *immediately* to his
> successor, no matter the distance. How, exactly, this is to be
> implemented in a communications system is unclear.
How it's to be implemented at all is unclear, due to the lack of frame
invariance of simultaneity in special relativity.
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