Re: Space Geography

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Indy <indy.kochte@gmail.com> wrote:

> This, of course, presumes you do not muddy the waters with FTL
> communications. If the findings that were announced at CERN yesterday
do
> indeed pan out (
>
>
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-li
ght-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/
> ),
> then you get to muck up future tech with FTL comms (not to mention FTL
> travel - in system or no depends on genre and PSB). That can get messy
> quickly.
>
>
Yeah, I saw this yesterday.

Assuming there was no measurement error, one of the more "grounded"
explanations is that there's still a universal speed limit, but perhaps
neutrinos -- which have less interaction with matter than photos -- get
closer to that speed limit.

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