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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
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Subject: Re: Sure we can!
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 05:43:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 05:43:08 1984
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>>  If we can discuss the likes of Deryni, Darkover, Terry Brooks, and Tolkien
>>  in SF-Lovers, we can damned well discuss speculative physics relating to
>>  space travel.


	I should point out that there is one difference between "speculative
    physics relating to space travel", and "Deryni, Darkover, Terry Brooks,
    and Tolkien".   And that is this:  In all cases, the books that you have
    mentioned are internally self-consistant (i.e. there is no place where
    you can say "This part of the novel disagrees with this part").

	That is not true with "FTL" drives.

	What most authors misunderstand about Einstein's theory of relativity
    is that it is not the ACT of moving through space that "makes time go
    slower", but rather that space and time are two components of the same
    thing.   "Going through Hyperspace" would do absolutely nothing, because
    the very ACT of ARRIVING at a location before light would (given any
    frame of refrence), is the very ACT of going backwards through time.

	Thus, though is is possible for "Psychism" to exist, even "magic"
    (as long as it is in another universe), FTL cannot.   This fact will
    not go away.  Period.  You might as well write 1000 novels based on
    Perpetual Motion machines, and have the same degree of truth in them
    as Star Wars, Star Trek, etc, etc, etc.

    Steven  Maurer