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From: norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS)
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Subject: Re: why FTL is illegal, in small words
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Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 13:56:12 EST
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> 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
1.)  Time stops?  What is time and under what conditions does time stop?
What does it mean to say that time stops?
2.)  "whose courses are determined by their charges and masses." Did you forget
free will?
You mean someone trying to understand the illegality of FTL travel should trade
an explanation based on relativity for one that requires answers about time and
free will?
I sure would like to learn from someone who understands all about relativity,
time and free will.  I'm not really being all that facetious...
Norm Andrews, vax135!ariel!norm