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> you really think that's a good way to describe something? You sound like you found some buzzwords and wanted to make a sentence out of them.

No, I just used standard terminology in physics.

> It still has an absolute component.

Yes, but "motion" is not part of what is absolute.

> in the context of this discussion (time travel) that absolute component means you will have to take the motion into account, as opposed to relative motion.

No, it doesn't, because there is no such thing as "motion" apart from relative motion. So the time travel device can't be using "motion" to determine what it does. It could use the other things I described, but not "motion".




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