Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!tom@LOGICON From: tom%LOGICON@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Sure we can! Message-ID: <17089@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 21:17:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17089 Posted: Thu Feb 23 21:17:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 03:47:03 EST Lines: 20 From: Mike Gannis (offnet) Sender: tom@logicon Steven Maurer (steven@ucb-vax) calims as "fact" the impossibility ("Period.") of FTL travel, based on Eisteinian Relativity. Great! As long as there is identical correspondence between relativity and reality. But suppose not? Superluminal velocities *are* permitted in theories that postulate a preferred frame of reference. We can't yet rule this out; indeed, there are some hints (e.g. Mach's principle) that this could be the case. Would you class as fantasy all stories involving sub-c time dilation effects simply because they aren't predicted by Newtonian physics? Newtonian physics is "true" - it adequately describes the world around you, doesn't it? Besides - are you claiming that the Darkover stories are entirely self-consistent? Mike Gannis -------