On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> For the Mormons here - how does this square with your religious beliefs? > > You mean the fact that Levi believes FTL information transfer is impossible? > Not too bad.
No, I mean the fact that FTL travel (as well as time travel in general) would create causality violations. If you believe in a deity that can travel and communicate faster than light and also travel through time, how do you make the two match up? Is it just a matter of not bothering to try (the Lord works in mysterious ways, etc.) or do you attempt to come up with some explanation or justification for all of this? It seems like the easiest explanation would be to hand-wave it away and say that God created the universe but exists outside of it, so the constraints of physics don't apply to him. That seems like cheating though - and anyway, if I recall my D&C correctly, God is supposedly bound by the laws of nature just as much as we are. Regardless, is it possible to have a deity that is bound by physics but is still a deity? Or do we have to postulate some sort of "sufficiently advanced technology" to make it happen? Maybe this should be in a separate thread... -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
