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From: upen@watarts.UUCP (Li Pen)
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Subject: Re: Re: Could someone explain why FTL is illegal?  In small words?
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 16:40:57 EST
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sorry, I forgot to mention that the Michelson-Morley experiment implied
constant velocity of light independent of the observer which in turn
implies that nothing moves faster than the speed of light.
  And I admit that using Special Relativity to disprove FTL is like
proving that
	     sin(x)
	lim  ------   =   1   
	x->0    x

using l'hopital's rule, which my calculus prof actually did. (you have
to know the limit before you can take the derivative of sin(x))

(of course, once you accept special relativity, faster than light
travel brings many contradictions)