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GR is fine with that - what will happen is that there'll be a sign change in the metric (the 'time' coordinate will become spacelike, whereas the 'angular' coordinate will become timelike), making it impossible to sit at a fixed value of the rotating frame's angular coordinate (which would correspond to faster-than-light motion in the non-rotating, inertial frame).



That's just a notation for doing exactly what I am describing.

GR deals with curved spacetime, but the only way to work in rotating spacetime is by changing how you calculate what's going on. Which means your calculations must be mapped and don't generalize.

EX: Try and do an actual calculation for say two electrons hitting each other at say 0.5c. In rotating, non rotating inertial, and non rotating non-inertial reference frames of your choice.




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