Alfke.PASA@Xerox.ARPA (07/10/85)
From: Peter Alfke <Alfke.pasa@Xerox.ARPA> Joel Upchurch writes: >most 'FTL' drives in SF don't literally assume you can go >faster than light. They use 'warp drives' through 'Hyperspace', >which is usually defined to be an alternate universe of some sort >which has a one-to-one mapping onto our universe, but is much >smaller. There are many variations on this theme, of course. So >there is no violation of Relativity. There IS violation of Relativity. 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? --Peter Alfke alfke.pasa@xerox