Random832 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Paulovsk 03 May 2012 11:15:47AM 0 points [-]

Could you re-explain this?

Especially thorny is that the surface of the earth accelerates upwards relative to inertial reference frames; if you stay in your inertial reference frame played backwards through time, you don't lose the earth in space, but you do oscillate through it like a mass on a spring. I personally think this is a really cool way for time travel to work, but it's clearly not how time turners do

I don't even konw what search for in google so that I undestand it: special relativity?

Comment author: Random832 03 May 2012 05:53:13PM 4 points [-]

General Relativity, actually. You could also look for "gravity as a fictitious force".

Comment author: Paulovsk 03 May 2012 07:21:03PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, I guess one future key ability will be know how keywords use to solve a problem. Using the google, of course.