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To: Windflier
I've read where theoretical physicists imagine FTL to be accomplished in exactly that way.

Here is another secret.

Einstein was right. To move matter faster than the speed of light requires an unfathomable amount of energy.

The only way to go faster is for you to have no mass. To not be 'material'. Which , coincidentally, is in the Bible as well. It may even explain why we see those glowing orbs that zip around the sky violating the laws of physics. Maybe they aren't 'material', don't have 'mass'.

37 posted on 01/13/2016 10:34:42 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Einstein was right. To move matter faster than the speed of light requires an unfathomable amount of energy.

The only way to go faster is for you to have no mass. To not be 'material'. Which , coincidentally, is in the Bible as well. It may even explain why we see those glowing orbs that zip around the sky violating the laws of physics. Maybe they aren't 'material', don't have 'mass'.

Over the years, I've had an abiding interest in such things, and have spent a good deal of time reading what some heretical physicists have to say about the subject.

What you outlined above, is something I've read in such writings many times - i.e., that in order to move faster than light, you first have to reduce an object's mass to zero. Some theorists even go so far as to explain how that can be done, using technologies that we're now on the cusp of developing.

It's a fascinating subject, and I hope to see the ftl puzzle unlocked during my lifetime.

41 posted on 01/13/2016 10:43:37 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Einstein was right. To move matter faster than the speed of light requires an unfathomable amount of energy.

Actually, at least according to Einstein's theory, it would require an *infinite* amount of energy to reach the speed of light. However, in the realm of quantum mechanics, instantaneous communication (of a sort) is apparently common place. See Belle's Theorem, the EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) experiment, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox, and/or non-locality (aka "spooky action at a distance", Einstein's term for it)

43 posted on 01/13/2016 11:04:11 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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