Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!kcarroll From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Sure we can! Message-ID: <3564@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 16:00:38 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3564 Posted: Mon Feb 20 16:00:38 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 16:00:38 EST References: <16018@sri-arpa.UUCP>, <850@qubix.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 16 * Tish, tosh. If we were able to travle faster than light, we'd new definitions of simultaneity and causality, it's true. That still doesn't make such travel physically impossible. We have no idea of exactly what is physically impossible. We know a great many things that are >possible<, are at least that were possible the last time that we tried them. The fact that something hasn't yet been done, or that nobody's yet thought of a way to do it, doesn't mean that it can't be done. If that was the case, then (anecdote of your choice: man would never have flown, Columbus would never have flown to the moon; whatever). Besides, FTL travel makes for a damned convenient plot device. -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll