Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka 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 Article-I.D.: mmintl.474 Posted: Mon Jul 1 14:37:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:16:43 EDT 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) Followup-To: 4577@mit-eddie.UUCP Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 10 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.