[Space] Ditching Relativity, with minimal collateral damage

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

In the usual scheme of ditching relativity, time is only an absolute in "hyperspace" or whatever so it still happens if you accelerate conventionally.

Well, OK, in the usual scheme that leads to actual consistency.

Your preferred frame won't preserve causality (and isn't actually "preferred") if there are other frames in which elapsed time between events can be different. Anything that's actually bound by physical laws runs on the clocks of the preferred frame, that is essentially what "preferred" means. If you really, really want time dilation for some reason, changing the laws of physics so all of them that have a time component also depend on tau computed for a velocity relative to the preferred frame might be able to get something like the relativistic effects back, but you are going to need to invoke that rule about these are the phenomena and I don't need to explain how they fit together at about that point.