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EmmaKat102722 t1_j0ggd93 wrote

Difficulty and uncertainty has never stopped humans before.

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s1ngular1ty2 t1_j0ghsea wrote

Nothing even remotely close to FTL has ever been done before... It's not physically possible...

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HashtagBarnes t1_j0gj46t wrote

Its not physically possible yet. Our ancestors probably looked to the skies and said "We'll never fly, thats physically impossible for humans." and now look at us... flying all over the place.

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s1ngular1ty2 t1_j0gk4ou wrote

Equating FTL to flying is the worst possible argument and often cited by people who have to clue what they are talking about. A child can fold a piece of paper and make if fly. It is that easy.

We know FTL is impossible and wormholes can not be used for FTL travel. Professors give lectures on this to college kids. It is that well understood at this point.

General relativity hasn't really changed much for over 100 years and it limits FTL travel and how wormholes work.

It's not changing. FTL is impossible.

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santasnufkin t1_j0gl9qd wrote

With our current understanding of physics what we know is that we can't accelerate to the same speed as light in vacuum.

What we currently do not know is if it's at all possible for something to travel faster at all in vacuum.

I specify vacuum due to the existence of Cherenkov radiation.

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s1ngular1ty2 t1_j0glg7s wrote

Nothing travels faster than light. There is no known radiation that travels faster than light...

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

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santasnufkin t1_j0gp5cr wrote

Cherenkov radiation. Look it up. And understand why I specifically talked about in vacuum in previous paragraphs.

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santasnufkin t1_j0hvubc wrote

Nothing known travels faster than c (speed of light in vacuum).
In a non vacuum medium, light does not travel at c.
Try studying if you don’t believe what I said.

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s1ngular1ty2 t1_j0koinz wrote

I don't need to study because I already know it LOL. I ignored you because I knew you were trying to act smart by posting trivia you just learned and thought no one else knew which wasn't relevant to the discussion. No one cares about light speed in a medium in the discussion we were having because it doesn't matter. I'm glad you learned something though! Good for you.

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MarSc77 t1_j0ghvat wrote

very much true. discoveries always have costs. and thankfully there were always people willing to pay the price.

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Legojoker t1_j0gjt8k wrote

The speed of light isn’t just a difficulty or minor inconvenience, it’s a physical fundamental of the universe, in the sense that the minimum amount of time something could travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri and back to Earth would be 8.5 years in Earth time, and there’s no getting around that. The objects/people aboard the ship/the ship itself could experience that entire trip in as little as 0.00001 seconds, but from Earth’s perspective, this ship would be traveling at 99.99% the speed of light there and back.

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EmmaKat102722 t1_j0h0wgn wrote

Obviously, but unless I misunderstood, your premise is that these things have been solved.

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