30 Jul '18 12:13>
Originally posted by @deepthoughtThat is what I thought. This is why I told sonhouse a while ago that even if my theory was right it would be very difficult to prove with mathematics. I went on to say that I would have to take into account all movement from the spin of the earth at the 45th parallel where I live, the orbit of the earth around the sun, the sun moving through the galaxy, the movement of our galaxy and then there is the "background dependence" problem, how do you know how fast you are moving when you are moving relative to everything else?
A frame is a reference frame. A frame of reference is a coordinate system natural to a particular observer. A frame dependent quantity is one that is different in different reference frames. Background dependence tends to be a property of theories more than objects within them, but roughly, yes.
Is that reply to sonhouse in another thread a good example of what you are talking about?