>If you were to write a computer simulation of the universe based on special relativity, you would only be simulating the universe according to one observer.
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>In order to reproduce the measurements of another observer a whole other simulation would have to be run in addition to original.
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>That could be seen as a weakness of special relativity. In other words, an open problem for scientists is how to write a single computer simulation of a universe that accounts for the relativistic measurements of all observers.

Mike,

The current issue of Scientific American has an article about black holes that suggests that there may a preferred frame of reference and that special relativity is only an approximation of reality.

Very interesting article.