From: Douglas Houts (dhouts@sepp.org)
Date: Tue Sep 10 1996 - 13:40:10 MDT
Tim Robbins wrote:
>Okay, I know Max Moore is going to pummel me on this one, but are we
>all sticking to the party line that FTL travel is really impossible? Even
>teleportation?
party line ?!!!?
I didn't know that there was an Extropian party line, Comrade Robbins. ;-)
E. Shaun Russell replied:
>I don't think we should rule *anything* out at this point in time.
>I don't like the word 'impossible', I see it as more of an assumption than
>anything convincing. In other words, I'm not ruling out any possiblility of
>Faster-Than-Light travel.
I agree. Though FTL travel is disallowed in Relativity, it is possible that
we might eventually find that Relativity applies only in certain situations;
Relativity could take on a role similar to that of Newtonian mechanics today.
Doug Houts dhouts@sepp.org
"The moment when first the conqueror spared his victim in order permanently
to exploit him in productive work, was of incomparable historical
importance. It gave birth to both nation and state." -- Franz Oppenheimer
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