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cool user name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 07:58 PM
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28. Faster than the speed of light:
Edited on Fri Dec-08-06 07:58 PM by cool user name
There was an article that I read a few years ago about an upcoming new genius from Portugal. I can't recall the particulars but his theory of riding superstrings (demolishing the speed of light speed limit) was quite compelling.

Hopefully, someone will know who I am talking about and refer me to a link so I can read it again.
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  -Galactic exploration within our lifetimes? everythingsxen  Dec-08-06 12:51 AM   #0 
  - There are some awfully big IFs there.  Wonk   Dec-08-06 01:00 AM   #1 
  - Their have always been ifs and people always figure things out  Quixote1818   Dec-08-06 01:04 AM   #2 
  - by the time it's figured out, there aren't many ifs left  rman   Dec-09-06 04:39 AM   #34 
  - I don't give a damn how big the IFs are...  everythingsxen   Dec-08-06 01:10 AM   #3 
  - If we put the observatory in orbit  nadinbrzezinski   Dec-08-06 01:46 AM   #10 
  - If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs  karlrschneider   Dec-08-06 06:34 PM   #22 
  - What about IF WE COULD PAY FOR IT!!!  thingfisher   Dec-09-06 04:50 PM   #40 
  - Wouldn't that be something?  lvx35   Dec-08-06 01:12 AM   #4 
  - Hyperdrive? Multi-dimensional space?  Canuckistanian   Dec-08-06 01:19 AM   #5 
  - May I kindly direct your attention to another theory  nadinbrzezinski   Dec-08-06 01:21 AM   #7 
     - Yes, I know ahout string theory  Canuckistanian   Dec-08-06 09:04 AM   #14 
  - ah yes, when sci fi meets reality  nadinbrzezinski   Dec-08-06 01:21 AM   #6 
  - well...the romulans use an artificial quantum singularity to power their birds of prey...  QuestionAll   Dec-08-06 01:37 AM   #8 
  - Not quite  nadinbrzezinski   Dec-08-06 01:46 AM   #9 
  - Having only a rudimentary proficiency in German, I find his  EST   Dec-08-06 02:09 AM   #11 
  - Not if we don't get our act together to have a sustainable technological--  eridani   Dec-08-06 03:45 AM   #12 
  - Exactly - any spiffy new physical theories should be used to solve our problems  muriel_volestrangler   Dec-08-06 09:17 AM   #15 
     - Right well..  everythingsxen   Dec-08-06 04:57 PM   #16 
        - Because it's been so easy to build transport for everyone on earth  muriel_volestrangler   Dec-08-06 05:25 PM   #18 
           - I see you offering no solutions...  everythingsxen   Dec-08-06 06:15 PM   #19 
              - If this theory ever amounts to anything  muriel_volestrangler   Dec-08-06 06:42 PM   #23 
              - Why would anything change?  NoMoreMyths   Dec-08-06 06:46 PM   #24 
  - Hyper drives are possible right now  conscious evolution   Dec-08-06 05:36 AM   #13 
  - If the gov. declassifies the UFOs, sure.  gulfcoastliberal   Dec-08-06 04:59 PM   #17 
  - Great ... we can fuck up other planets ...  cool user name   Dec-08-06 06:16 PM   #20 
  - Yes  everythingsxen   Dec-08-06 06:25 PM   #21 
  - You do realise the world's population is no longer exponentially increasing?  muriel_volestrangler   Dec-08-06 06:54 PM   #25 
  - Nice strawman ...  cool user name   Dec-08-06 07:44 PM   #26 
     - The same strawman was used by  nadinbrzezinski   Dec-09-06 01:48 PM   #38 
  - Yup!  impeachdubya   Dec-08-06 07:45 PM   #27 
  - Faster than the speed of light:  cool user name   Dec-08-06 07:58 PM   #28 
  - they better frigging hurry  leftofthedial   Dec-08-06 08:09 PM   #29 
  - Science poser. If you are traveling faster than the speed of light...  Touchdown   Dec-08-06 08:30 PM   #30 
  - Not if you're trying to do it in normal space...  Dr_eldritch   Dec-08-06 10:33 PM   #31 
  - This is not FTL  rman   Dec-09-06 04:34 AM   #33 
  - The human species  IndyBob   Dec-08-06 10:55 PM   #32 
  - Has at least as much chance as "Starwars Revisited" which W  Vidar   Dec-09-06 05:56 AM   #35 
  - The problem being, if anything FTL is posisble, causality is a myth  dmesg   Dec-09-06 12:36 PM   #36 
  - Only in terms of gross linear space/time relativism.  TheWraith   Dec-09-06 04:37 PM   #39 
     - But "instantly" only has a local meanng  dmesg   Dec-09-06 11:14 PM   #42 
  - Thanks for that! The future has much in store if we cooperate.  dfgrbac   Dec-09-06 01:45 PM   #37 
  - They are talking about the 'Hyperspace' button in the video game Defender...  file83   Dec-09-06 07:18 PM   #41 
 

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