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How would that avoid violating Special Relativity (and giving rise to all sorts of nasty paradoxes)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Causality_

• rbanffy 17y ago
  While the exact way it could happen is unclear (and whether or not it is at all possible is subject of debate) it would be analog to the way Special Relativity violates Newton's mechanics: it covers special cases that demanded new models that explain them. SR is not a law (as Newton's laws are not "laws" in the strict sense) but a model we use to explain certain phenomena.
  • smanek 17y ago
    So, it would violate SR under certain conditions (just as SR/QM violate newtonian mechanics under certain conditions?). Boy, we really need a unified field theory to work out the kinks in physics ... I guess this could be a chance for String theory to provide a falsifiable prediction that differs from relativity and quantum physics.
    • rbanffy 17y ago
      Don't worry. We will find ways to violate any unified theory we can come up with ;-) We have to agree experiments that could falsify String Theory are long overdue. If ST physicists can't come up with something, people will start calling it "String Hypothesis".
      • dfranke 17y ago
        A friend explaining to another friend why he was leaving grad school to start a startup: "Hey, and it could actually work, so it beats studying string theory!" "Yeah, but it could also fail. So that's a disadvantage versus string theory."
        • rbanffy 17y ago
          "The best thing you can say about string theory is that it's internally consistent"