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Originally Posted by rkomar
Things are different on a cosmological scale, where the behaviour of galaxies doesn't seem to fit our theories of gravitation. However, it's hard to imagine how discoveries in that field are going to help us travel around the universe and communicate instantly with each other. Even gravity waves travel at the speed of light.
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I'm no scientist but for me it's hard to imagine how "hard to imagine" equals "impossible". I'm sure flashlights were hard to imagine a couple of centuries ago.
I'm a computer programmer, retired now for about 25 years. I remember when I was new in the field, which was itself fairly new, around the mid 1960s, before computers even had screens, a bunch of us would get together for lunch or after work and speculate on the future of computing. We wove all sorts of fantasies. But we never imagined anything like this!
Barry