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June 12, 2014 at 11:31 am (This post was last modified: June 12, 2014 at 11:53 am by Creed of Heresy.)
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 1:09 pm
Unless tampering with the fabric of reality might upset the apple cart, EVERYWHERE and EVERYWHEN.
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 1:15 pm
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 1:22 pm
And the supernova bomb from Krikkit . .
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 1:53 pm
...These guys have never seen Event Horizon, have they?

Still, great advance... if it works.
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 1:55 pm
(June 12, 2014 at 1:53 pm)One Above All Wrote: great advance... if it works.
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But... BUT! Wouldn't we be going backward rather than advancing? Thinking
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 2:08 pm
(June 12, 2014 at 1:55 pm)ShaMan Wrote: But... BUT! Wouldn't we be going backward rather than advancing? Thinking

Backward relative to what? :S
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 2:51 pm
I've seen this sort of thing before, about shifting an area of spacetime containing a spacecraft rather than the vehicle itself. As I recall, one of the minor drawbacks mentioned at the time was the immense power requirements, something like a single burst of energy greater than all the energy generated in human history. Apparently, such a release of energy would likely vaporise the Earth and probably the Sun as well.

I suspect - and hope - that all these stumbling blocks are overcome, within my lifetime for preference.
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 3:20 pm
Quantum entanglement?

I don't think you can travel faster than something that is virtually instantaneous.
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RE: FTL
June 12, 2014 at 11:23 pm
I do note that FTL is by implication not instantaneous.

I'm not sure the objections to violating relativity etc. etc. etc., would apply to a transportation scheme that was instantaneous.


Not that that helps actually do it.



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