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Re: Sailing and Faster-Than-Light Travel

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From: William John M. Christie
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:39
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A fairly obvious (I thought it was, maybe everyone isn't aware of it) is
that if you could actually go beyond the speed of light you would travel
back in time.  Ergo you would arrive at your destination before you
departed.  Not very good for keeping the universe in one neat orderly time
line.  This is of course all very hypothetical.

As to the solar sails I had heard a science program a few years back
talking how the technical world states (U.S., Japan, ESA) were going to
send solar sailers to Mars as a test.  I haven't heard anything else about
it since then, although I would hazard a guess it's still being developed.


Will Christie
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