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Re: OT: Helen Keller & Whorf-Sapir

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Monday, August 16, 2004, 20:15
--- william drewery <will65610@...> wrote:

> Perhaps you can comment on something for me. I'm > skeptical of the idea of time-travel via relativity > theory. Einstein basically said that if one could > move > faster than light (ignoring the problems with that > for > now) then one would catch up with light-cones that > had > already escaped one's reference frame. But is this > time-travel? Because the reflected light signals and > what-not are NOT the object(s) which reflected them. > It seems to me that any nonpositivist reading of the > theory concludes that this sort of "time-travel" > would > be traveling to a world of ghost, where our observer > would be interacting with mere holograms. But the > idea > is still quite pervassive in modern science, so > maybe > I'm missing something. > Travis
I understood that nothing material can travel faster than light. Material means belonging to our usual 3+1 dimension universe. But if you use another dimension, there isn't the faintest problem. If I want to travel from Paris to Australia, I need to travel about 20,000 km, on a half circle. But if there were a tunnel through the centre of the Earth, it would be much less (about 13,000 km I guess). So traveling faster than light just needs digging the right tunnel, or using it if it exists already. ===== Philippe Caquant "High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Mark P. Line <mark@...>
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