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Physicists of Lemmy, what is up?
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this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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I don't understand why people are downvoting this, but up, down, left, right all depend on your frame of reference.
Up in space is nowhere, but at the same time it is everywhere. Those are not physical concepts and they require necessarily a frame of reference to even make sense.
Ok. Frame of reference is half way between here and Andromeda!
That doesn't really tell me anything, haha
And I'm facing South.
Dude, North, South, East and West are not real either. Again, you need a frame of reference. Those are 100% arbitrary.
I can't tell if you're taking me seriously or not. 🤣
I am. "Halfway" is not a frame of reference. You need to arbitrarily define what up and down is. North and South is.
Why would it be arbitrary there? It's not arbitrary here.
I highly encourage you to Google this question. You don't seem to understand what a frame of reference is. At least not in this context.