On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding time: Basically, unless two events share a "light cone" -- that
> is, roughly speaking, the number of light-seconds separating them in
> distance is less than the number of seconds separating them in time -- those
> two events have no fixed ordering. Depending on relative speeds, different
> observers will see the two events happening in either order, or
> simultaneously. This makes it impossible to talk about "now" meaningfully
> for anywhere other than where you are.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
>

Would J-Space travel provide a "hyperlight cone" ?
Hear me out...

Einstein's original thought experiments that led to relativity were
imagining bouncing a ball while moving on a train that approaches
light speed. A person sitting in the train tosses the ball up, bounces
it off the ceiling, and catches it.
To him, the ball is going straight up and down.
The path the ball takes to outside observers gets weirder the more
difference between train speed and observer speed.

So...

Imagine Enri is sitting in a Type-A, bouncing a ball off the deckhead
of his stateroom.

From the point of view of the ball (grin), all of the events are in
the same light cone... it's just that for 168 hours or so, it's dark.

Or, for a better point of view, imagine a stray photon from the origin
system's star being in the jump bubble with the ship.