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Old 03-22-2007, 10:59 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by Kingswood View Post
Faster than light travel is impossible.
[Steven Wright]
If I'm driving along at 186,000 miles per second and turn my lights on does anything happen?[/Wright]

Actually, it is possible. Here's how.

Ok, that's cheating.

There might be another way that takes advantage of space-time distortions caused by gravity waves which technically wouldn't allow one to travel faster than light but to take a shortcut and get to the endpoint faster than a lightbeam that didn't take the shortcut.
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