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shompyesterday at 10:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Absolute synchronization impossible?? Challenge accepted.


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nuccytoday at 12:01 AM

Nature (laws of physics) is agains you on this: it is in fact impossible for everyone. What is in sync for some observers can be out of sync for others (depends on where they are, i.e. gravity, and how they relatively move). See general and special relativity principle of simultaneity [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

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