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> Do we have to remember that the people we communicate with have different experiences of time?

This is already true on Earth. Different people process information at different speeds. Think about when you're talking to someone who is elderly. Do you slow down a bit so they have a chance to keep up?

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Yep, exactly. I was just chatting with someone in the park today who was much slower to process and respond than I am accustomed to. I was able to adapt to that and we had a nice conversation. It’s definitely a thing. Communication is messy.

I do think this thought experiment is a bit different though. In the sense that everyone orbiting S62 is faster than us, by a considerable margin. There will still be individual variances of course but the baseline moves. It’s not just a way you adapt to an individual but to an entire group of people, based on properties of their location.

Reminds me of that star trek voyager episode with the fast moving planet “Blink of an eye” Hours in our universe, is centuries on this planet that orbits at an incredible velocity.

That episode was a (poor) adaptation of Robert L. Forward's first contact novel "Dargon's Egg". Humanity discovers life on a neutron star, where the intense gravity (billions of gs) enables degenerate matter chemistry where interactions are orders of magnitude faster than in conventional matter.

I highly recommend it.

On my read list, thank you!

From reading the comments here, the margin isn't that much, and from their perspective we're the faster ones. Relativity is weird.

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