There is something about relativity I don't understand. I know that an observer who watches someone else in motion will observe time dilation, so the person in motion will appear to have slowed down, with time passing more slowly. I also know that there is distance dilation, so that the person in motion appears, to the stationary observer, to be compressed along an axis parallel to the direction of the motion. I also understand that there is mass dilation, so the person in motion appears to gain mass, as energy is added to accelerate this person, some of the additional energy takes the form of mass, rather than increasing the speed.

What I am confused about is post count. Would the person in motion appear, to the stationary observer, to have a lower post count? Or would the post count remain constant, and the individual posts be dilated? In curved space-time, would tidal forces cause the meaning of posts to change? Is it possible for a poster to be banned in one reference frame and not banned in another? Would the top poster vary by reference frame?

Much appreciation for any help, I have not been able to find any material discussing these issues in the library or on the web.

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Wouldn't we need a unified theory for this? Post count is only in the quantum world with integral units.

I know some posts seem to be half posts, and some seem to have dialated to the point where time seems to pass so slowly.
But; that can only be determined by observation. So is the post dead or not?

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Depends. Would you be wearing your decoder ring or x-ray spectacles at the time?

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If a poster is banned in one frame he/she will be banned in every other frames.

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How many posts would a poster post if a poster could post posts?

If a poster made a post and their was no one to read it, would it be legible?

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