Re: Faster Than Light Travel

On Sept 11, 1997 you wrote:

>3) conventional travel  straight line,  (if one believes: the light
barrier
>is just another barrier than every thinks can not be surpassed.  Much
like
>the sound barrier back in the way days. < we just don't know how /
>theoretically>)

This is a bit of a misleading statement, comparing the sound barrier to
the light barrier. People knew of many things that could surpass the
sound barrier before it was ever done. It was much more of an
engineering
problem (How do we make things strong enough to withstand poorly
understood, non-linear and very strong forces...). With faster than
light travel there is a bigger problem. No one has ever observed
anything
that gives any evidence that counters the notion that the speed of light
is an absolute limit. Lately there has been some discussion of neutrinos
possibly travelling faster than light, but none have yet been observed
doing so. If they were, things could get very interesting in particle
physics. Sorry about the length, but you seemed a bit cavalier in your
treatment of the light barrier...

>if any one can think of something else that's no related to any of
these
>(is truly different)  please let me know...

I have one. How about an omnipresent/quantum-mechanical like system.
This
would work by being everywhere in the universe at the same time, right
up until you wish to become "detected" (ie. "seen"). Of, course, the
science fiction part is how you would maintain your coherent existence
in such a way as to allow you to actually have consiousness.

For the uninitiated, our universe behaves much like this on scales
smaller than say, an atom. You don't really know "where" an electron
"is"
until you manage to detect it (if indeed the concept has meaning).
It is a bit like the needle in a haystack idea, but everytime you
place the needle in the stack, it gets mixed up again, so you have no
idea where the needle is until you find it again, and even then you have
no way of knowing it was the same needle. However, if you are the
needle/electron things change in ways I that I haven't a clue about.

>I have been thinking about this for years now and have not come up with
any
>other theories..

I'll keep on it, and post any "new" ideas I find...

>thanks
>
>CMC

Tony.