And by the way... On 11-09-24 01:58 AM, Kyle Mcallister wrote:
Now, the article goes on to say that maybe the neutrinos did some funny travel through another dimension, and arrived at the destination sooner by taking a shortcut. So, no, they never really traveled faster than light. This is quite possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever read. If you crack open Taylor and Wheeler, do a few space-time diagrams, you will find that it DOES NOT MATTER whether the thing took a shortcut through the dimension of "somebody else's problem" via bistromathics; from our point of view, the thing traveled at a global speed defined by V = D / t, and since the arrival at position D = x (with the origin being defined as D = 0) took place at time t< x / c, it still went faster than light as far as special relativity is concerned. Period.
Yeah. Bien sur. The whole issue isn't that some religious law might be broken; it's that you can get contradictions if we allow stuff like this to go on without careful controls on it, and short cuts, improbability physics, and bistromath make no difference to that conclusion.
And, frankly, I, and lots of other people (I'm sure!), feel pretty strongly that Nature doesn't allow contradictions. Paradoxes may be allowed in the math of the model, but they're never in the real world. Ergo, if FTL travel is possible, there are surely some restrictions buried in the fine print.
