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What if there's a bigger, still unknown reference point? (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 9 months ago by ViscloReader to c/showerthoughts
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When we think about teleportation, there's always someone talking about how you should take into account the earth and the sun moving through space. Let's step back a little (not so much) what if the galaxy we're currently in is rotating really really fast around another, bigger, still unknown, spacial object?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Currently the closest thing to a universal reference point we have is the cosmic microwave background. Relative to that we move at about 370 km/s +- 60 km/s, depending on the time of the year and day.