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Old 09-26-2011, 12:58 AM   #11
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Re: We may have broken the speed of light

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Originally Posted by Caveman Techie View Post
Well if we want to nit-pick we could always travel through time. Just doing it one-way and only 1 second at a time.

However if faster than light speed is possible we would at least be able to travel forwards in time at a faster rate than what we do now.
This is all true but still, traveling at or just a tad faster than the speed of light is not only slow (relatively speaking in terms of space travel) it is just unwieldy because of the issue of time differential. Even if we could devise a way to work around mass becoming infinitely heavy at the speed of light, it would still be a limiting way of travel. Warp speed and wormholes are the way to go!

Sorry to crush everyone's scifi dream
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