Re:They're made out of meat (1991)
by anonymous_sorry on Sunday July 03, 2022 @04:28AM
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>Many people say speed of light is the absolute speed limit of anything or information can travel. Sure it is, which is easily proven by physics.
I remember reading that special relativity does not prevent faster-than-light travel, but does prevent accelerating a mass to the speed of light. That doesn't preclude things existing that have always had a faster-than-light velocity.
How such things could originate would be an interesting question for sci-fi.
Re:They're made out of meat (1991)
by simonh on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:36PM
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Right, relativity doesn't say anything about technology or non-relativistic physical processes. It just provides equations, into which you plug in distributions of matter and energy, from which you can calculate a spacetime geometry.
I remember reading that special relativity does not prevent faster-than-light travel, but does prevent accelerating a mass to the speed of light. That doesn't preclude things existing that have always had a faster-than-light velocity.
How such things could originate would be an interesting question for sci-fi.