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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]...there is no basis whatsoever for believing that anything can move faster than light.[/quote] Hmmm... It has been demonstrated that [url=http://www.science-spirit.org/archive_cm_detail.php?new_id=305]s[/url][url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml]o[/url][url=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2796-speed-of-light-broken-with-basic-lab-kit.html]m[/url][url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/08/0818_040818_teleportation.html]e [/url] things appear to break the universal speed limit, but it's still a [i]very[/i] large step from quantum tunneling experiments and generating a super-light waveform, to sending spacemen to distant stars and back in time for a cup of tea and a cucumber sandwich. While it is still true that [i]nothing with mass[/i] has been accelerated near to light velocities (or teleported), scientists are learning by degrees that the rules of the universe are 'bendable'. Science is still very, very young. Each leap of faith that leads to new discovery seems to be more daunting (and ridiculous) than the last, but the steadfast belief that [i]nothing is impossible[/i] is what drove ingenius humans to use fire, harness electricity, fly around the world, and ultimately, to split the atom. Black holes were nothing but a crazy (intricately, precisely, mathematically deduced) idea for many years before someone looked at an increasingly more detailed picture of our galaxy one day and said "what the flying blue f*** is [url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_mw_040401.html]that thing[/url] in the middle!?" I'm thoroughly in Webshaman's camp with this one; I absolutely [i]believe[/i] that there will be ways of circum-navigating the obstacles we perceive today (if we don't wipe ourselves out beforehand). You shouldn't think of it as 'breaking the speed of light' so much as, perhaps, finding a back-road around it. With the stuff of yesterday's sci-fi becoming today's theoretical science (and maybe even tomorrow's scientific fact), is it so far fetched to imagine that we might one day, force open the mouth of a wormhole? How about stepping outside of the influences of this universe altogether, and [i]warping[/i] from place to place? If we (or humanity's greatest scientists) can imagine it, it's most-likely possible. If it's possible, then we may one day achieve it. If we can do it, it has probably already been done. What's the betting that Earth isn't just another fish-tank in some great aquarium, to be gawped-at by passers-by to whom inter-stellar travel is barely an inconvenience..? [IMG]http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/3672/earthpokewa4.png[/IMG] Of course, as the energies involved in such science are unimaginably immense, one wonders if a race incapable of managing even the meagre resources of its own planet will ever see the stars at anything but an extreme distance... _____ [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4663]White Hawk[/url] on 04-28-2008 18:12)[/small] Loading...
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