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Sabine is interesting, and I have listened to her before.
How I miss Art Bell.
I remember reading a book by Poul Anderson a very long time ago I think it was called tau zero
in the story they never got past light speed but they knowingly destroyed the universe but still survived till the next.
if you were to move faster than light I believe you might go backwards in time, the problem is that sucks for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that you are also displaced in space as some proportion to a square of the time.
Perhaps if we reduced the mass of a space ship to that of a pea somehow, accelerating that to some ludicrous speed would be a lot easier. FTL, I doubt it, get north of 50% of C, maybe.
Clickbait.
Yes, I just finished reading it.
The argument from the early universe was especially irrelevant: the early universe had enough energy that particles were traveling > c. That does NOT imply that we know how to accelerate a particle above c under present conditions.
For the rest, poking holes in strawman paradox arguments is not sufficient to show that FTL travel is possible.
I thought I was understanding it up to “Higgs-condensate.” She is far smarter than me so I can’t comment on faster than light travel.
I like her intellectual sense of humor.