...Faster Than Light is a pipe-dream

On Apr 29, 10:24*pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
And we'll never talk to aliens.

Because the universe makes sense!
Because the inherent abilities of the universe
to create and evolve are so pervasive and
relentless, life emerges straight away everywhere.

Life blooms everywhere at about the same time.
The universe is teeming with life but we'll never prove it.
Since telescopes see the past, we'll never see them, and
they'll never see us. Even though both are looking, we'll
only see each other's distant past.

For questions of truth and meaning there's only thought.
Common understanding is the only thing that might
exceed the speed oflight.

Imho.

Jonathan
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Regarding your subject line "Faster Than Light is a pipe-dream" Not so
fast:

A physicist actually proposed in 1994 that one could be possible. It
is called colloquially a Alcubierre warp drive:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclo...lcubdrive.html

There are scientist including a former NASA propulsion specialist that
are currently working on the problem:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30600749/

Now other physicist say that it would be a practical impossibility.
However, even then it is not so much that it is impossible to create a
warp drive but that if we wouldn't be able to control it once started.
Sort of like a runaway nuclear reaction:

http://www.gearlog.com/2009/06/scien...e_might_no.php

They didn't rule it out as a flat out impossibility the principle of
warp drive but they say dark matter has to be better understood. I say
that is perhaps true with current understanding with physics. A 100
years from now who knows? Maybe then it will be deemed an utter
impossibility-or the first warp drives will be fired up by a real life
Zefram Cochran.

NEVER SAY NEVER when it comes to science. I am sure that if you were
to go back to the year 1900 and gave a rough outline about how a
nuclear fission reactor supposedly would work I'm sure the most
respected scientist of that era would laugh you right out the room.
The history of science and engineering has proved time and time and
time and time again that is what is thought of as impossible-a "pipe
dream"-at one time is common place the next.
--
-----Hunter

"No man in the wrong can stand up against
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."

-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907