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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: FTL Microwave Signal
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:39:21 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <20AUG199213365493@elroy.uh.edu> <1992Aug26.021649.4507@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
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- In article <1992Aug26.021649.4507@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>, dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes...
- >
- >None of the critics asked the obvious question which is: how do the
- >authors propose to transfer any useful information on a single leading
- >wavefront?? Surely you can only transfer one bit of data at FTL, which isn't
- >too useful.
-
- I think that the point is that if even one bit of information is transmittable
- FTL, then we will all go off in search of the correct reformulation of
- mechanics. If we then find such a theory, we presumably would *then*
- know how to exploit the effect in a serious way.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-