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To: Telepathic Intruder

A day will come when some whiz kid cracks the code that enables faster than light travel, and relegates Einstein to the dark ages of physics.

May not happen in our lifetimes, but it’s coming.


12 posted on 06/21/2018 11:13:15 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Physics wishing. Imagine a new color while you’re at it.


14 posted on 06/21/2018 11:18:23 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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To: Windflier

The solution is warping space time where a line becomes a point. All that needs doing is the implementation.


35 posted on 06/22/2018 12:12:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Windflier
"A day will come when some whiz kid cracks the code that enables faster than light travel"

I tend to disagree with that, in the sense that there was no dark age of physics. No one has successfully broken any law of physics--there have only been modifications to it, such as Einstein's modifications to Newton's laws of gravity. I personally don't think the speed of light can ever be exceeded, no more than you can travel backwards in time. Both concepts produce paradoxes which cannot be resolved.
40 posted on 06/22/2018 12:19:26 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Windflier
A day will come when some whiz kid cracks the code that enables faster than light travel, and relegates Einstein to the dark ages of physics.

Miguel Alcubierrie has already worked out the math, and others have expanded on his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

83 posted on 06/22/2018 6:34:07 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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