LouderVol
Extra and Terrestrial
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many of the "impossible" things in our past had physic-al limitations for why they couldn't. and over time both our material science and understanding of physics evolved. Not flying, but several others. look at the macro vs micro discussion you were having with Marcus. our current understanding doesn't fully explain both working, meaning to us currently some things are "impossible" just because we don't understand it.Yeah, but they were ignorant. There as never a physics reason preventing it; only an evolutionary one and a lack of engineering within physics at the time.
If an intelligent life species wants to travel FTL, their best bet is via dimensionality or nonlocality; not through spacetime.
imo part of the reason we think FTL is impossible is because we don't have anything that we know is FTL to measure it. so for us part of the limitation is that we are confined by current understanding of physics. like previous break thrus, it just takes time. and sometimes all the possible needs to happen is for someone to not know that it is impossible. Telsa wrote multiple times he thought it was possible to get FTL speeds out of some things, even claiming to have gotten electricity to travel at higher than FTL speeds. of course all of his research got gobbled up, so who knows what was actually there.
the reverse is also true, plenty of theoretical "physics" solid things we still can't produce in the real world.
and even some simple things we have, still can't be fully explained by physics. The Bicycle Paradox being one of them.
there will always be a part of me that thinks that true FTL is indeed possible, and more than using the sun's full energy potential to push a grain of rice.