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Skunk Works Digest         Sunday, 20 August 1995       Volume 05 : Number 390

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	Re: Faster Than Light Travel

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From: Charles_E._Smith.wbst200@xerox.com
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 03:34:05 PDT
Subject: Re: Faster Than Light Travel

Big question about FTL is:
If I travel at the speed of light, the distances in the direction of my velocity 
become zero. The trip would take no time at all! How can I go any faster
than that!?

And if I could go faster than light, how long would it take? Negative time? 
If that happened, velocity which is a relationship between distance and time,
would go negative. Oops. Now I`m going away from my intended destination.

The big problem with the "space warp" theories is that even if it could work,
the energy requirements would require you carry the mass of several Suns
along with you! Proponents of supra-light travel  tend to omit  this little 
tidbit.

"Why stabbest thou thus at the poet`s heart,
Vulture, who`s wings are dull realities?"       E.A.Poe "Sonnet to Science"

Chuck Smith
"Aerospace Engineer to the Stars"


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