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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6546863" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Well gang, I'll grant that 1) the laws of quantum mechanics and general relativity work really well, and that 2) you have much better understandings of these laws than I do.  But I believe that the great unifiers are still battling it out, to see how the two laws (theories?) come together.  And since I haven't heard explanations lately for where all the universe's dark matter is hiding, or why the universe's expansion is accelerating, I hope that we can agree that there are still some flaws in the maths.I'll ask about relativity first: [MENTION=40227]freyar[/MENTION]: how can every observer agree on what physical events happen, but not when they happen?  The "when" seems pretty important to me, unless "when" is only a number on a clock.  If you were in the open at 12:01 but behind cover at 12:02, then I hope I shot you at 12:01. [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION]: see the above case.  If we can disagree on when getting shot occurred in relation to other events, and if another event is the arrival of a tank between you and me, then that tank might mean the difference between life and death.Also, shooter games do a certain degree of smoothing, so that updates to your game world don't look (too) awkward.  If the universe runs on something similar to the Frostbite game engine<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />, then there wouldn't be any obvious "please update" moments.  Just tiny inconsistencies, like a single photon causing an interference pattern with itself.</blockquote>

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