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Unknown unknowns mean you don't know if there's a way to make fast, long distance travel feasible. From a Newtonian perspective quantum physics sounds like a c
by brango 9y ago
Unknown unknowns mean you don't know if there's a way to make fast, long distance travel feasible.
From a Newtonian perspective quantum physics sounds like a complete joke. There are undoubtedly other discoveries yet to be made. I can certainly countenance that future scientific advancements could make what we think of today as being impossible as being possible without violating the laws we have discovered.
- ansible 9y agoWhile there are definitely gaps in our understanding, the standard model of physics is one of the best scientific theories... ever. So we don't yet have a grand unified field theory, but for what we do understand, at reasonably attainable energy levels, there just isn't room to jam in some sort of faster-than-light communication or faster-than-light travel. If you look at how it all fits together, any sort of magic like that seems highly unlikely. Nothing we've observed in the sky, dating back billions of years, suggests FTL either. Until I see something that can even hint at FTL, I'm completely discounting it.