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Sorry if I don't fully understand, I've read through link a bit but it just leaves me with one question in particular: Wouldn't your relativity have to be both different and the same simultaneously for this to work?

In the tachyonic antitelephone example, Bob and Alice send messages that travel at 2.4c, but neither observers are at that speed. Wouldn't the limits of their observation and time dilation cause the messages to appear in order?

If you were to theoretically travel into a black hole, and then somehow escape out of it very quickly, you would see yourself still in the black hole, but you wouldn't see yourself coming out of it, because that light was further from the black hole and thus moving at a different speed?



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