Re: FTL transmission?

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 01:21:03 MDT


Brian Atkins writes:

> Anyway, what you are describing is not the kind of paradox people keep
> going on about. It seems like whenever talk of FTL communications comes
> up, people start spouting off about the future, the past, paradoxes, etc.
> Just seems silly to me.

Maybe the people who're spouting off about FTL signalling being
equivalent to time travel have a reason for what they're saying. As to
being silly, reality is ridiculously silly. The more we depart from
area common sense was designed for, the more ridiculous it looks.



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