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Re:They're Made out of Meat by laumars on Friday August 08, 2014 @07:44AM (#8152339)
You couldn't travel in 3 dimensional space faster than the speed of light, but you can travel vast distances faster by taking "short cuts" through other dimensions.

I'm guessing the author used 'C space' as a way of describing '3 dimensional' (ie a = 1, b = 2, c = 3). So 'C space beings' would be limited to light speed travel (unless we build meat containers that could manipulate or penetrate 'D space')

Re:They're Made out of Meat by richardwhiuk on Friday August 08, 2014 @08:46AM (#8152497)
I'm assumed that it's called C space because the speed of light is normally termed c - so the space was described in terms of the limiting speed.
Re:They're Made out of Meat by malka on Friday August 08, 2014 @09:30AM (#8152646)
wouldn't that break causality ? because light / information would still travel in 'C space'.
Re:They're Made out of Meat by laumars on Friday August 08, 2014 @10:21AM (#8152862)
Not really. Sound travels faster than light so we see really fast moving objects before we hear them. If we folded the universe and took a shortcut then we'd just arrive at the destination before it's visible that we've left. But that's little different to seeing stars millions of light years away shining away which would have already died thousands of years ago (hence why some scientists romanticize about astronomy as being like time travel - as they're often looking at events that happened hundreds or even millions of years in the past)

In any case, there's already enough literature on this subject to last you a life time so if you have any question then it's an interesting subject to read. And by "literature" I don't mean "Star Trek" (though their "Warp Drives" are based on a similar premise or warping 3 dimensional space - despite obviously being a work of fiction)

Re:They're Made out of Meat by gizmo686 on Friday August 08, 2014 @10:08AM (#8152814)
Yes. Of course the only evidence we have for causality is that we have not observed it being broken (and recognized that observation)