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we might also find out that there is no real way to travel faster than light, bounding us to colonizing few nearby star systems at best (which might be utterly
by saiya-jin 10y ago
we might also find out that there is no real way to travel faster than light, bounding us to colonizing few nearby star systems at best (which might be utterly inhabitable without massive terraforming), a rather depressing thought.
- maze-le 10y ago> we might also find out that there is no real way to travel faster than light We don't need to find that out, we already know that
- bbctol 10y agoWell, there certainly seems to be no way for anything to move faster than light through spacetime. It's harder to rule out exotic matter or negative energy that could warp spacetime to (relatively) move an object faster than light.
- XorNot 10y agoOf course if computing power proceeds to its logical bounds, we'll have more then enough capacity to sustain thousands of personalities in substrate the same size as the human head. And once we're all immortal infomorphs, "time" - and thus distance, may end up having very different meanings to us. EDIT: Basically just go read Accelerando for a pretty good take on this whole idea (it's free online).
- nitrogen 10y agoAlso read Permutation City, Diaspora, and Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan. If you only read one, read Schild's Ladder.