What is truth? - continued.

Here's another thought experiment. Suppose we have a time machine and we hop into it and go back some 300 years - let's say to the year 1700. We're here in what is now the West Midlands - would have been Staffordshire back then - and suppose something momentous happened in London. Let's say the King dies, quite unexpectedly. It would be at least something like 18 hours before we here became aware that this had happened. That's the minimum time it would take a rider, riding a succession of fast horses over rutted tracks, fields, hedges and ditches and stuff, to get here with the news - always assuming that he came straight here. Now the question is, during that 18-hour period, is the King alive or dead, here where we are? The obvious answer is, he's dead but we don't know it yet. But when you think about it, that's an answer we can only arrive at in retrospect, once we know he's dead. What is the situation during that 18-hour period? I would suggest he's alive - we have no reason to think otherwise, and I go back to my basic premise - reality (truth) is the sum total of the information available to us. Until the news reaches us, the status quo exists - he's alive. The upshot of all this is that information travels, and therefore reality (truth) travels. You can imagine the news of the King's death spreading outwards from London like ripples on a pond - the truth of the matter would be different depending on how close, or far away, you were from London. So the truth can be different for different people - spooky eh? And I've not finished yet!