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RE: Light speed - The final frontier
As I said, show your phone to a stone age human... You cannot imagine FTL as he cannot imagine a phone. Do not limit others by what you understand as boundaries.
As I said, show your phone to a stone age human... You cannot imagine FTL as he cannot imagine a phone. Do not limit others by what you understand as boundaries.
No, but we actually understand the theoretical basis for the impossibility of FTL communication. We cannot be compared to stone age humans because we now have a "rough draft" of the universe, and our best and valid frameworks do not allow for FTL propagation. This is not a limitation of human engineering, but a theoretical limit, no information can propagate faster than light, not even in principal. I'm sorry but saying otherwise makes you sound like an anti science charlatan.
Just go to physics. Stack exchange, ask the same question and users more qualified than me will also tell you the same thing.
Ps: there is no propagation of information in quantum entanglement, if you're frantically googling for possible counter examples ;)
Also, the same goes for Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. We'll never be able to know perfectly well the simultaneous position and momentum of quantum mechanical objects.
Saying some kind of miraculous technology in future will remove the uncertainty simply indicates that the person making the claim hardly understands the reasons and basis for the existence of that principle.
This, along with faster than c speed, are probably two of biggest pop science misconceptions.
Happy to clear it up
You are refuting ideas with rough absolutes, having no idea what knowledge will bring in a future.
You seem to have come only to troll and demean... please, go on your way.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-fundamental-reason-why-the-speed-of-light-cannot-be-broken
You see, human engineering is inconsequential for making predictions like this one, because it is a theoretical limitation and NOT an engineering one
I'd also claim that not only humans, but any species, no matter how advanced, will be able to break the barrier of c. Now, I'm sure you'd agree that is quit a bold claim, and if you followed my other posts, you'd probably see that I'm not a totally irrational moron that spews rhetoric, and that I'm more or less rational when it comes to scientific topics (at the very least. ) . So, is it not confusing when someone who is usually conservative / reserved with their statements coming out and making "bold" claims like this? Perhaps there's some fundamental misunderstanding you're harboring ; ) ?
That's not my intention, if disagreement sounds like demeaning, then I can't help it, if I called you a "charlatan" it's because statements like -
"we can some day build tech that will enable us to travel faster than c"
"we can one day design detection equipment precise enough to measure position and momentum of a quantum mechanical object to arbitrary accuracy "
are usually statements said by charlatans with a deep misunderstanding of the underlying scientific framework. And I just try to do my bit to correct them. No offence meant, at all.
What's your stackexchange username?
please help yourself