Re: impossible vs. impractical

Dr. Frederick B. Cohen (fc@all.net)
Mon, 8 May 1995 06:42:47 -0400 (EDT)

>   Oh good. I think possibility has practicality implied. After all, if you 
> can generate an infinite amount of energy, you CAN go the speed of light 
> (according to the current laws of physics), so there, it's not impossible.

But according to current physics, there is a finite amount of total
energy in the Universe, and thus it is impossible to get the infinite
energy required to do this - again, impossible, not infeasible.

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