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Ah, it's not the laws of physics you care about! It's causal paradoxes! In other words, you want the patent office to not only know the laws of physics (reason
by csours 7y ago
Ah, it's not the laws of physics you care about! It's causal paradoxes!
In other words, you want the patent office to not only know the laws of physics (reasonable), but also have a deep knowledge including where there is future potential for change in understanding (maybe less reasonable).
- lisper 7y agoI would expect someone at the patent office to be familiar with the basics of modern physics, including the "cosmic speed limit" imposed by the speed of light. I would not necessarily expect them to know why nothing can move faster than c, but I would expect them to know that nothing can and to reject a patent for something that moves faster than c on those grounds. There is actually a specific rule for this sort of thing: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/10/11/the-patent-law-of-perpetual-motion/id=19828/ https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2011/10/11/the-patent-law-of-perp... It is generally applied to perpetual motion machines.