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From: turpin@ut-sally.UUCP (Russell Turpin)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: FTL Information Xfer
Message-ID: <8149@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 11:43:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.8149
Posted: Wed May 27 11:43:02 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 29-May-87 06:20:43 EDT
References: <1664@drivax.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 11
Keywords: aspect superluminance Bell's inequality
Summary: Why not? Time travel is fun.

In article <1664@drivax.UUCP>, macleod@drivax.UUCP (MacLeod) writes:
> Why shouldn't information be able to exceed the speed of light?  It has
> no mass, or anything else but significance, and that only to observers.

Let's not forget the theory of relativity. Superluminal message
transmission would allow us to send messages to our past or
future. Assuming that everyone has read their fair share of
science fiction, there's no need to go into the acausal paradoxes
that arise.

Russell