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> Many things that we enjoy daily were once “fundamentally impossible”. Not so. They may have been conceptually impossible but did not run into the "fundamenta
by monkeydreams 5y ago
> Many things that we enjoy daily were once “fundamentally impossible”.
Not so. They may have been conceptually impossible but did not run into the "fundamental" laws of physics. FTL travel breaks physics. A lot abiut our observable universe would be different if it were possible.
The evidence that the universe obeys these laws is significant and, currently, not counter indicated.
- netr0ute 5y ago> but did not run into the "fundamental" laws of physics Those "fundamental" laws of physics didn't exist several centuries ago.
- igorkraw 5y agoYes they did, we just hadn't figured them out yet. If we were very wrong in them, we'd have to be wrong in a way that doesn't affect all the technology using the wrong theory - which is part of why we refined them, because shit didn't work. That's what it means to be contradicting fundamental physics. It implies all of our other knowledge is wrong, but we are just lucky enough that our machines work anyway. Which, unless we see a phenomenon that we can't fit into our existing theories, seems unlikely
- imtringued 5y agoLet's invent new laws of physics and hope the universe adopts them.
- decebalus1 5y ago> FTL travel breaks physics Like quantum mechanics broke physics?
- igorkraw 5y agoWe observed quantum effects before the theory. We haven't seen any phenomena so far which require physics that could lead to FTL
- bashinator 5y agoQuantum mechanics _fixed_ physics. Newtonian physics predicts that an electron will spiral into the nucleus of an atom within a few nanoseconds of the atom’s creation.