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MARVEL SUPERHERO "BATHOS" AND A LOCAL LORENTZ FRAME

**SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT  for Marvel movie  Thor: Love and Thunder** Oh, I see what he’s doing. Trying to capitalise on the science audience from college by using all these science terms for analogies, and bringing up Marvel pop culture references to make it seem interesting… Yes, I can read minds. And you’re probably right, this is a flimsy attempt at original content meets SEO optimising. Prophet needs to focus on the business end too. The idea of using a local Lorentz frame to serve as some far-fetched analogy on life in general had come up to me back during the General Relativity course at college. And I had to revisit old General Relativity notes now since I had forgotten the whole idea, not that great a feeling. So I have to make this worth the effort. I’ll keep the science short. In a local region of curved spacetime, one can always choose coordinates where the metric looks approximately like the flat Minkowski metric. This is the local Lorentz frame. Ok ok that seems lik...