Yes, but the effects you get when you try to combine J-drive with special relativity (never mind general) are immediate, macroscopic, and glaringly obvious. Like my "1 parsec in whose rest frame?" example, and the follow-on "1 week in whose rest frame?" example.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@mac.com> wrote:
On 19 May 2016, at 18:49, Craig Berry wrote:
>
> Or the rest-frame-of-planets duration, for that matter? Things fall apart pretty rapidly if you start trying to combine the stated jump rules with relativity.

I wouldn't feel too bad about it... We're still trying to combine Relativity with Quantum Physics, and not very successfully as I understand it!

It appears so, as I saw this in my local BAM the other day:


Too bad I don't have enough math to actually understand the debate.

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