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Skriven 2006-12-26 18:23:00 av LEE LOFASO
     Kommentar till en text av MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
Ärende: America
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Hello Michiel,

>MvdV>- You can not go faster than light.
>MvdV>- You can not go back in time.

>RW>I read somewhere that someone has proposed a theory that allows for
>RW>going faster than the speed of light.

MVDV>Proposing a theory does not make it so.

It is not a theory, but established fact, that faster than light
travel is a reality.

>RW>If that can be done, going back in time can also be done.

MVDV>Exactly. And that is the problem with going faster than light. It *implies
MVDV>time travel. And vice versa. Time travel opens up a can of worms that is t
MVDV>hard for the universe to swallow.

Faster than light travel and time travel do not violate the laws of
physics.  Travel close to the sun, at an accelerated rate, and time
travel is accomplished.

>MvdV>- You can not fit a 4 mm peg into a 3 mm hole.

>RW>I can fit a 4.2mm peg into a 4mm hole.

MVDV>You'd end up with a hole bigger than 4 mm or pegs smaller than 4.2. Or bot
MVDV>whatever way it turns out, you would not have fitted 4,2 mmm pegs into 4 m
MVDV>holes.

The astronauts of Apollo 13 managed to put a square peg into a round
hole.  Of course, they had help from mission control.  But they did it.

>RW>3mm would be a challenge, but it could be done with the right
>RW>equipment.

MVDV>Same problem.

There is a solution to the problem, as demonstrated by the astronauts
of Apollo 13.

>MvdV>- You can not be in two places at the same time.

>RW>Part of you could. You get into an accident and your left leg is
>RW>laying over there and your right arm is way over there...

MVDV>That wasn't the proposition.

Schroedinger's Cat did it.  So did a team of Sliders.

>MvdV>- You can not lift a 1 meter platinum cube with human bare
>MvdV>hands only.

>RW>Well, you would have to put your back into it and that wouldn't be
>RW>enough either.

MVDV>Have you any idea what a cubic meter of platinum weighs?

Does not matter in the weightlessness of space.

>MvdV>- You can not breathe in a vacuum.

>RW>I saw a mouse breath under water once.

MVDV>What you saw probably was the experiment in which a mouse breathed in a 10
MVDV>Bar oxygen saturated solution of freon. Freon, mot water.

Man can breathe underwater, as shown in the movie "The Abyss".

MVDV>Whatever, an oxygen saturated liquid is not a vacuum.

Is there such a thing as a perfect vacuum?

--Lee


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