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From: 128a-3cl@e260-1f.berkeley.edu (Cimarron D. Taylor </>)
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Subject: Re: approaching "C"
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Date: 13 Feb 89 01:04:15 GMT
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	I feel constrained to add a comment to this 
perennial discussion.  The transmission of matter or energy
faster than the speed of light would not require an
overthrow of current theory.  Relativity, which introduced
this limit, was more a broadening of theory than a revolution.
To suggest that relativity is, in turn, just a special case
of some larger model is not absurd.
	All one can say about FTL transmission is that it
is not predicted in the models that best fit physical
observations.

	--MYC