Blue as Ushas - long

Don Doggett · 18 Nov 2002, 06:17 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Don Doggett" <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Blue as Ushas - long
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:17:11 -0800
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 Roy, you wrote:

> I agree that FTL travel for the _Whorl_ is very doubtful. Anyway, the
usual
> take on FTL ships is that they travel *backwards* in time. Therefore the
> arrival of the ship in Ushas' far future is even less likely.

Please explain.  Is this the usual SF take on FTL or is there a physics
explanation that makes backward time travel the most likely?  I'm pretty
ignorant on this.

Don



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