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Yakk · 03-26-2004, 07:44 AM

Do you want FTL travel without causality violations? If you do, we will have to find an "ether", or a universal frame of reference.

There are various means involving exotic (as in, never seen before) forms of matter and energy that would allow FTL-like travel, some of which are vaguly warp-drive like. The fact they require matter that we have no evidence exists, together with the causality violations of them, make it unlikely.

Personally, I'd believe a future involving very-long-lived 'humans' (effectively immortal) together with near light speed interstellar travel as reasonable. If you live 1 million years+, a 100 year trip that takes a subjective 1 year to you isn't all that long.

03-26-2004, 07:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
Yakk Wehret Den Anfängen! Location: Ontario, Canada	Do you want FTL travel without causality violations? If you do, we will have to find an "ether", or a universal frame of reference. There are various means involving exotic (as in, never seen before) forms of matter and energy that would allow FTL-like travel, some of which are vaguly warp-drive like. The fact they require matter that we have no evidence exists, together with the causality violations of them, make it unlikely. Personally, I'd believe a future involving very-long-lived 'humans' (effectively immortal) together with near light speed interstellar travel as reasonable. If you live 1 million years+, a 100 year trip that takes a subjective 1 year to you isn't all that long. __________________ Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.