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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Discrepancies (ftl travel and so on)
Message-ID: <474@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 14:37:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 14:37:37 1985
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References: <2039@iddic.UUCP> <483@gitpyr.UUCP> <389@ttidcb.UUCP> <73@rtp47.UUCP> <2062@iddic.UUCP> <4577@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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Summary: Not necessarily


In article <4577@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:
>  According to Special Relativity, faster-than-light travel is
>exactly equivalent to traveling backwards in time: there is no
>difference.

Stories assuming ftl travel generally (implicitly) assume that special
relativity is wrong, that there is a preferred frame of reference, which
approximates our own here on Earth.  Admittedly, most do this because the
author does not understand special relativity, BUT it is a consistent
assumption -- just not very likely.