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From: eric@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: FTL weapons
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 13:48:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 13:48:59 1986
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> 2) I was read an SF book about FTL travel and they made an interesting
>    remark.  Now, travel approaches a limit, C (speed of light).  That is,
>    The curve approaches C but never hits it.  Well, this guy suggested
>    that the limits on the other side work the same way.  Like if you are
>    travelling faster than light, you can slow down almost too, but not
>    to C.  Same limit, other side.  (The only exception is the thrust
>    from one side of C to the other.)  In fact, this author went on to
>    say that he thought travel *at* C would be therefore impossible.
>      
> Well, that's our opinion.  What's yours?  We'd like to know.
> -------
>      
> "I always lie ... and I'm always right."
>                      -J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, The Church of the SubGenius
>      
> Michael S. Weiss
> The Pennsylvania State University
> MW9@PSUVM.BITNET
>      
> <* The opinions expressed by me do not reflect those held  *>
> <* by my school nor those of my employer.  (If I had one.) *>
>      

I think what you read in a SF book is actually a real theory, that of
the nature of tachyons.

	Eric Cotton
	Commodore

"My hovercraft is full of eels!"