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I Think Faster Than Light Travel is Possible. Here's Why.
YouTube ^ | April 8, 2023 | Sabine Hossenfelder

Posted on 07/21/2023 6:56:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: BipolarBob

It doesn’t matter if you can go FTL because you could never make use of it. Information cannot go FTl.


21 posted on 07/21/2023 7:35:12 PM PDT by BipolarBob (My friend David got his ID stolen, so now he's just Dav.)
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To: EEGator

Whoa, whoa, whoa! I don’t know who SETI is, but that woman is not that hot. You need to get out more.


22 posted on 07/21/2023 7:36:45 PM PDT by BipolarBob (My friend David got his ID stolen, so now he's just Dav.)
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To: BipolarBob

Star Trek had several time travel episodes.


23 posted on 07/21/2023 7:37:59 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: BipolarBob

Sorry, remote work and all that.


24 posted on 07/21/2023 7:38:04 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: FatherofFive
She's a reliable source (and she discussed this). You're not.

25 posted on 07/21/2023 7:38:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


26 posted on 07/21/2023 7:40:07 PM PDT by algore (tv)
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To: MNDude
YouTube auto-generates a transcript on demand, except for songs (I believe...) and some public speeches and stuff. Then I've got a little simple doodad that gives it some basic formatting, but doesn't alter the auto-generated text, which lacks caps and such.

27 posted on 07/21/2023 7:40:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: FatherofFive

You’re going to need more crystals.


28 posted on 07/21/2023 7:41:37 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: algore

She also discusses time trav in the vid.


29 posted on 07/21/2023 7:42:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: Reno89519

I don’t care if you read it or not, and it’s clear that you haven’t read the t-script or listened to it.


30 posted on 07/21/2023 7:44:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: BipolarBob
Information cannot go FTl.

Why not? Information is massless. Shadows can travel faster than the speed of light...

31 posted on 07/21/2023 7:44:04 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Nifster

Yeah, notice to those considering reading it. He adds nothing new. Just pokes some theoretical holes in the theoretical time travel paradoxes but doesn’t actually make a case as to why faster than light is even theoretically possible.
It’s like arguing that Bob is your dad because he’s not necessarily your uncle.


32 posted on 07/21/2023 7:45:40 PM PDT by swingdoc
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To: gundog

Accelerating at 32fps per second is 1g. Just do that until you surpass the velocity of C.


33 posted on 07/21/2023 7:47:52 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: marktwain

The laws of causality. Too many paradox scenarios.


34 posted on 07/21/2023 7:48:38 PM PDT by BipolarBob (My friend David got his ID stolen, so now he's just Dav.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I believe there's intelligent life on other planets.

Why?

35 posted on 07/21/2023 7:50:58 PM PDT by fso301
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To: SunkenCiv

You are wrong... If you were able to create a method for travelling the speed of light, the one factor that would destroy your ability to do so... One spec of matter. If you were to hit one spec of matter you would explode.


36 posted on 07/21/2023 7:52:04 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: FatherofFive

Or how about the expansion of the Universe in the first place added to the distance between galaxies? You know, billions of light years... And I thought Kamala Harris getting a law degree was not possible LOL!


37 posted on 07/21/2023 7:52:22 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: algore
>>If you were to move faster than light…

At speed of light, how would one develop a collision avoidance system to not crash into meteors and other space objects?

38 posted on 07/21/2023 7:53:43 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thank you for the transcript, because I can read way faster than I can watch a video.

On the topic: I have trouble understanding how it could be possible. But I’ve yet to be convinced it is impossible.


39 posted on 07/21/2023 7:55:40 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: swingdoc

Who is “He”?


40 posted on 07/21/2023 7:56:44 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carceremâ„¢)
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