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Old 07-18-2010, 06:51 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by nyrath View Post
The old saying is "Causality, Relativity, FTL travel: chose any two." You cannot have all three.
You can if there is no such thing as time.

Joking aside, and I realise this thread is about science and not philosophy/religion but.....

Many spiritual traditions claim there is no past, present and future and instead there is only now. So if there is only now, FTL doesn't violate anything.

It's a nice thought from a S/F writers point of view and a nice way around the whole issue of whether or not FTL could ever happen.

For the record I would put myself in the "We don't know everything and there may be a loop hole" camp. However, I realise that is pretty unlikely based on our current understanding.

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