: Let’s say I’m alone in the universe. Am I moving at all ?

Question

According to (my understanding of) Einstein, the slower I go through space, the faster I go through time. So If I’m alone, with no point of reference, am I travelling through time at maximum speed, or am I travelling through space at the speed of light ?

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So a safe assumption is to say that every observer thinks they are at rest. Of course we can make Relativity work with observers that say they moved but we just dont have to. So for anything thats slower than light there exists a rest frame a frame of reference where that observer is at rest. Time differences only make sense when you have ways to compare clocks.