FTL Travel

cilluff1 at optonline.net · 18 Nov 2002, 20:14 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "cilluff1 at optonline.net" <cilluff1 at optonline.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) FTL Travel
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:14:53 -0500
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Andy wrote:

<<<
<<Travelling FTL requires that you have the vision of God - that you see
time,
not as a progression, but as a dimension >>>

Although I do not pretend to be versed in the mathematics of FTL travel (I=
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was an English lit=3D2E major way back when, no hard science!), I'm not sur=
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agree with this assertion, or at least I would be interested, as a layman,=
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in a little more explanation as to why FTL travel would require the
traveller to have the vision of God (which was eloquently put, btw)=3D2E  A=
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all, we who can move voluntarily only in three dimensions may not be able
to perceive all three (for example, someone blind in one eye may have poor=
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depth perception, or for that matter, someone blind in both eyes would not=
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be able to perceive any, but he still travels in three dimensions)=3D2E  As=
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layman I would really be interested to hear more of your reasoning=3D2E

- Joe

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