The talk of the impossible technology in "Getting Real" made me think of HT's explanation for FTL travel in Homeward Bound. Then that reminded me that this article needed both clean-up and expansion. I'll write an article on superstrings while I'm at it (first I'll need to clarify my own very vague understanding of what they are) but not till the 5000 shit is resolved. Turtle Fan 04:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
See Superstrings. I suggest that this article be renamed to "Superstrings, Inc." to avoid confusion. ML4E 04:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
- Good move. I'd forgotten about Closter--I never did finish his story. I read the one from the POV of his older self and found it only mildly interesting. The idea of getting the same story from a different POV but the same character was intriguing, but something more interesting to read came along (though not so interesting that I can now remember what it was) and I never bothered returning to the anthology. Short stories by any author really don't interest me much. Turtle Fan 05:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
- Don't think we can say Einstein proved FTL is impossible. Theorized is more accurate, is is not? TR 18:34, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
- That's true, impossibility can't be proven, can it? But every physicist I've ever known or known of takes the impossibility of FTL as gospel truth, with the possible exception of Stephen Hawking's visit to the set of ST:TNG: He looked at the warp core, smiled, and said "I'm working on that." Knowing Hawking, though, he was most likely just screwing around.
- "Concluded" might be the best word. "Theorized" suggests it's still an open question. Turtle Fan 20:17, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Spelling corrections of seperate--Not this guy again! Turtle Fan 19:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- That's funny, I was thinking about Mr Seperate again today. Guy's like fucking Beetle Juice. Turtle Fan 20:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey, why is "'Tosevite'" in quotes? Doing one of my occasional Random Page patrols (they're so much less useful than they were when we had only a few hundred articles and I'll soon stop them altogether) and I noticed that--That's why I do these things!
And now, a limerick based on the topic of the article:
There was a young lady from Wight Who travelled much faster than light. She departed one day In her usual way And arrived on the previous night.
Hawking uses it in his latest book to illustrate that FTL makes it possible to travel into the past. It was the only point in the book whose meaning eluded me altogether. Turtle Fan 22:06, 24 August 2009 (UTC)