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Nice list and currently no. But many theory's that say it is possible, no experiments shown it to happen and indeed faster than light gets for many down to ca
by Zenst 10y ago
Nice list and currently no. But many theory's that say it is possible, no experiments shown it to happen and indeed faster than light gets for many down to causality. Not saying it is impossible, but in theory anything is possible until proven or disproven.
Another article that raises the same question is http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150318-will-we-ever-speak-across-galaxies http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150318-will-we-ever-speak-...
Now one aspect I'll add is that it may be possible but would the integrity of the information communicated be maintained and with that it would still be a case of no.
For me a related theory is that black holes convert mass into energy and that energy dissociates with current space and time and some of that ends up at physical location in space of 0,0,0 and time 0 as that is the earliest point in time and space. That and with all black holes over time venting so to speak to that point in space in time, was the reason for the big bang. Again a theory of mine. Now in that case something from now has gone back in time and yet has it gone faster than light? Or indeed is there anything sent that is recognisable from when it entered and in that case - no. So again whilst FTL communication may be possible, the whole aspect of integrity of that communication is a whole other aspect.
Equally the speed of light, there is another theory that the speed of light has varied over time (VLS Variable light speed) and whilst some observations lend themselves to this, it is still a theory. So that is another aspect in this that needs to be factored in. In short light may of been faster in the past, or it may of been slower and that add's a whole new layer of complexity upon this issue.
Science is fun isn't it, be darn boring when we as a species learn it all, but not in any of our lifetimes and that for me is a good thing. Though like many theories and great scientists there are and still are people who just dismiss without debate and with that how many people in the past burned or killed for saying the earth is not flat. Still be interesting for constructive perspectives and debate upon this, but alas as a subject many just dismiss and blindly label. Which is sad, in any time, even today :(.
- clock_tower 10y agoWhen exactly were people burned alive, or killed in general, for saying the earth isn't flat? The first article of the _Summa Theologica_ discusses how to prove that the world is round; no Christian took Genesis' cosmography particularly seriously until biblical literalism and the Reformation. You might be thinking of the heliocentricism mess; but Bruno was burned for beliefs that had nothing to do with heliocentricism, and Galileo was only confined to house arrest -- and that after the Pope had tried to compromise with him, and Galileo responded by putting the Pope's arguments into the mouth of a simpleton in a revised version of the _Dialogue Concerning Two World-Systems_. This is a tangent to your main argument, but it's an important thing to get right; you can't reach truth if you start from misconceptions...
- Zenst 10y agohttp://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bruno_Giordano.html http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bruno_Giordano.html Yip your right, my mistake, good to learn. Least none can name and was indeed thinking of Bruno at the time, my bad. Thank you for the correction and sorry for the misconception correction by me.
- clock_tower 10y agoThanks for not turning it into a fight! (And I apologize for my contentious tone; I was inappropriately gearing up for battle there.) I thought you might be thinking of Bruno, the scientist who really was burned at the stake; it's a good thing for everyone that this wasn't for his science. (Of course, it would've been better if people weren't burned at the stake in general. Certain modern elements have reminded us of how painful a death that was...) I also learned a few things about Galileo from Biography Base's article on him; thanks for that link! The more I learn about that case, the less it sounds like Religion versus Science and the more it sounds like a conventional miscarriage of justice. A frail, sick, stubborn old man should never have been treated like that, even though he did call the Pope a simpleton. The Pope is the Pope, and has certain standards to maintain; it doesn't reflect well on Christ when His Vicar abuses the courts to make trouble for people who insult him.