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Author Topic:   This has bothered me for ages! (re: Travel faster than the speed of light)
Chiroptera
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Message 9 of 33 (245115)
09-20-2005 8:20 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Trixie
09-19-2005 9:03 PM


Short answer
No one knows. The present laws of physics do not allow for faster than light travel, at all. Therefore, if faster-that-light travel is possible, then that means that our present laws of physics are not complete -- we need a new formulation of the laws of physics. But right now, we don't know what they would be. They would have to agree with ordinary relativity at subluminal speeds, but we have no way of knowing what they would predict for superluminal speeds.

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