From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!Physics:els Newsgroups: net.space Title: Re: FTL Article-I.D.: pur-phy.430 Posted: Mon Aug 9 10:42:51 1982 Received: Tue Aug 10 04:38:35 1982 I have heard some serious scientific talk about FTL. I am currently trying to track down something definite, as so far all I've heard has been just enough to whet my appetite. Someone mentioned an article in Science Digest. That article was written by Alan Holt, who if memory serves, recently left NASA's Johnson Space Center to run his own consulting firm. When I find something, I'll post it. I'd like to see *serious* discussion about FTL, not things that should be on sf-lovers, and also I'd like these to see some restraint used by the supposedly educated people who have been treating the whole idea of FTL with the same attitude as the Inquisition treated Galileo. The one thing education (esp. physics) should teach is that cherished, time-honored ideas fall by the wayside as our understanding of the Universe expands. There is no way of telling where the new ideas will come from. If all that comes of the study of FTL is that it is proved conclusively that it can't be done, then something valuable has still come of it. Along the way, perhaps we'll learn something valuable about the laws of physics. Perhaps we should move the truly serious discussion of FTL to net.physics. els[Eric Strobel] pur-ee!pur-phy!els