>>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.
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>Mike,
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>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.
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>Very interesting article.

Yep. This one deserves some attention too:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17159653-13762,00.html

Reg, in my opinion, is the front runner for a "next big something" as opposed to string theory or loop quantum gravity.