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From: cooley@nmtvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: FTL
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 02:14:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 02:14:26 1984
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		FTL travel has interesting possibilities when you consider time as
a series of events perceived by the senses and strung together as a 
continuous line by consciousness. This is the same as saying that time is
simultaneous and all events happen at the same "time". 
		If such is the case than the likely place to go when one passes the
speed of light is into a different probability system. Note: I'm not saying
that the speed of light is a barrier, but merely that as you approach the speed
of light, your perceptual network becomes discontinuous with the networks of 
those at different speeds (relative to you).
		If you were a telepath traveling at very near the speed of light, and
you tuned in to a telepath moving at a relatively slow speed, would you be 
able to read his/her thoughts or would they be too fast?
		After all, if two photons are traveling towards each other at the
speed of light, isn't the distance between them shrinking at twice the speed 
of light? Both the photons and the distance between them are perceptual 
objects: In one framework we are measuring spped of travel from point A to
point B, in the other we are measuring rate of shrinkage. 1 = 1c, 2 = 2c.

								Michael Cooley
								Socorro, NM
								c/o twilight zone