>>12168057>Relativity implies that there's no absolute time referenceRelativity says there are no absolute correlations between two events in time and space. It's correct.
The correlation is not direct but indirect, because it may be handled by an outer mechanism.
Imagine you design a build a computer model that works as I hypotized. You'd end up with a system that allows each particle to execute at different speeds, you'd be able to follow the evolution of the system from an absolute reference frame, but still all the formulas involving GR would still be valid to calculate the interaction of events inside the simulated time and space, because that's their domain. It doesn't concern how the system is being run on your end, the only thing that matter is all the interactions between point A and B.
We can't just dismiss these ideas without proper consideration. Reverse engineering often requires one to think about the problem from the developer's side to gain better insight.
Who knows, perhaps some day we'll come up with the model that explains *why* all the formulas work the way they do.
