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It's a really funny way of thinking about things. That when your rotate, you don't, instead you rotate entire universe around you. Yet, somehow, how hard is it to rotate has nothing to do with what's in the universe but everything to do with you.

Moving your point of view from one inertial frame of reference to another is easy enough, but there should be some overarching mathematical construct that can model all the inertial frames and their relationships at once. Phenomenons such as energy, mass and acceleration should be easier to understand within it.






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