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Article #75Re: Sailing and Faster-Than-Light Travel
From: William John M. Christie
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:39
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 -- ========================================================================== Any opinions expressed above are usually made with some thought which is my own and is not intended to represent the University in any way. ==========================================================================
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Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!chrstie From: chrstie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (William John M. Christie) Subject: Re: Sailing and Faster-Than-Light Travel Message-ID: <BxvCxp.8Ar@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: pollux.cc.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada References: <1992Nov17.023854.5180@bnr.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:39:24 GMT Lines: 18