Re: lawless physics (fwd)

["Richard W. Tarara" <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

I really don't understand your statement below.  No matter how fast I
travel, I can't get to any other star system before my current 'NOW'.  Say I
can travel at 10 times the speed of light as measured from earth and I head
off for a star system 10 light-years away.  I can't get there before St.
Pat's Day 1999 (earth time),  and assuming I could transmit a video signal
back to earth (via 'subspace' at the same speed) it couldn't arrive before
3/17/2000.  How do pull off the 'time travel' scenario implied below?

Rick



-----Original Message-----
From: John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPomona.Edu>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Cc: AJMALLINCKRO@CSUPomona.Edu <AJMALLINCKRO@CSUPomona.Edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: lawless physics (fwd)


> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Richard W. Tarara wrote:
>
> > ... An Asimov style Galactic Empire with millions of planets
> > filled with humanity would then take many-many millennia to accomplish.
The
> > situation _could_ be much different with faster than light
> > travel/communications, ...
>
> It sure could!  We could start doing it today and finish the job before
> the pyramids get built.  ;-)
>
> John
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