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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: why FTL is illegal, in small words
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 13:16:19 EST
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[You' in a heap o' trouble, bwah]

Here's another version, for people who do not want to fool around
with relativity:

You are made up of charged particles, whose courses are determined
by their charges and masses.  When you move, the particles generate
magnetic forces - this is the Oersted effect.  The fields slow down
the particles, and interfere with the effect of any outside force.
At the speed of light, the magnetic forces exactly counteract the
electric forces, time stops, and outside forces have no effect.

Not that any of this is what Oersted has in mind ...
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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