Recent articles in Scientific American have talked about traveling faster than light.

Scientific American ^ | 03/20/05 | Jorge

[KevinDavis]

Einstein's special theory of relativity predicts that nothing can exceed the speed of light. But special relativity applies when spacetime is flat. When spacetime is curved, the theory applies only "locally"--that is, over regions of spacetime small enough to be considered flat. Consider the analogy of a plane that is tangent to a sphere. The flat geometry of the plane is a good approximation to the geometry of the sphere when the size of the plane is very small compared to the sphere's radius of curvature.

[KevinDavis]

Never say never. Anything can be done.

[KevinDavis]

[maestro]

The Only Begotten Son of God-Jesus and His Created Servant Angels can travel faster than the speed of light!

No Problem!!!

[Spktyr]

Yes, now we just have to build starships that can do that - and use them to deport the liberals. ;)

[KevinDavis]

Naw, they can stay here... I want to leave..

[RightWhale]

I see the regulars on FR have just about left this behind due to graduation from amateur science 101. Goedel proved that we can travel anywhere in time, and that means time is an illusion. We're just not looking at it right.

[maestro]

Yes, now we just have to build starships that can do that - and use them to deport the liberals. ;)

Yep!

LOL

P.S.,.....you've got a great screen name!

:-)

[DYngbld]

Not to be a skeptic, but on this one I will have to see it to believe it. I'm hung up with the whole infinite mass issue.

[festus]

"Never say Never" ...

While I have no problem believing you can travel faster than light someday I must observe that scientific american also had an article recently blaming the start of global warming on the first ancient farmers to the present day humans............

[marblehead17]

Please add me to your list.

[Bouchart]

Even if we can't go faster than the speed of light, maybe we can increase the speed of light....

[Graybeard58]

I already read this article tomorrow.

[Paul C. Jesup]

I read about an interesting about a test in the UK a couple of years ago where researchers were about to slow down light using various gases, the side effect of the research proofed that the exact speed of light is not a constant and can change given the enviroment it is in, gravity can also bend light.

Thus since the speed of light it not a constant, traveling faster than it is possible in theory. But the more interesting research is in using high-powered laser looped on themselves to created a wormhole in space/time for time travel and space teleporting.

[SuperLuminal]

Been there....done that....{:-)

[Spktyr]

I didn't say where I would prefer sending them.

I was thinking a one-way trip to the galactic core. After all, like attracts like so they should be able to find a convenient black hole; if not in the center, then close by...

[thoughtomator]

It may well turn out that trying to travel that way will be akin to going from New York to Beijing by tunnelling through the planet.

[mazack]

What's the matter with infinite mass? I thought you could divide by zero!

[RightWhale]

I'm hung up with the whole infinite mass issue.

That is an illusion. Too bad we can't use the math they use in physics these days to make nice easy pictures. Just imagine that space can be bunched up like a rug so you can step one step and find yourself at the next star or the next galaxy immediately. That's one of the easier images.

[corkoman]

Naw, they can stay here... I want to leave..

the meek shall inherit the earth; the rest shall go to the stars.

[quantim]

Guth did it. To create a solution by using mathematics as a convenient porthole is not the same thing as the discovering the absolute truth. If there was one big bang, there must be another, and so it goes.