• Allero@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Nah, I know the thing with reference points, but that’s a matter of navigation and relativity.

    In reality, a point in space is a point in space, like, a specific “pixel” of the Universe (oversimplified) that might be occupied with something or not.

    We just can’t anchor this point since we don’t know what reference is absolute and the laws of physics can be applied to every inertial reference, so this doesn’t help.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      It’s not that we don’t know which reference point is absolute, but there are still absolutely defined ‘points in space’, it’s that there is no absolute reference point, and so there are just ‘points in space’ relative to whatever arbitrary body you decide to make your reference frame.