jdecarlo@mitre.ARPA (07/19/85)
From: jdecarlo@mitre.ARPA Peter Alfke says: > >Relativity prohibits any transfer >of information at speeds greater than that of light. It doesn't >matter how the information got from one place to another, just the >distance covered per time taken. Upsetting, isn't it? I might add that some assume that our universe is many-dimensioned and the ships make use of that fact to *take short cuts* to their destinations. The usual analogy is that of a line two feet long with it's end points one inch apart. A one dimensional creature travels two feet to go from one end to another, while a two-dimensional creature (or a one dimensional creature in a *spaceship* which can travel in two dimensions) travels one inch. Did the two-dimensional creature violate the speed-of-light limit or not? Creature one would say yes, creature two would say no. (BTW, Macroscope, by Piers Anthony, has a particularly convoluted view of the universe in it, as an example.) John DeCarlo <jdecarlo@mitre>