Re: A New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 03:26:13 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

In article <slrnvse8ls.s38.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

If you move from A to B in less time than light takes to travel
that distance, it's FTL.  Doesn't matter _how_.

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Also, if you can move from A to B in less time than light takes
to travel that distance, then accelerate towards A, then travel
from B to A in less time than light takes, it doesn't matter how,
you have traveled into the past.
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When that was finally explained to me in a way that I understood
*why*, it was a major "ARGH!" moment.  I want my FTL.  But I don't
believe in time travel into the past.

You could, I suppose, adopt the Marvel approach: you can't travel into
the past because it is not /your/ past, that is, your life continues
in one continuous line regardless of what the external dating may be.

IOW, when you remember /your/ life, it will be one continuous journey
forward in time, no matter how much time-travelling you undertook.

I didn't find that a particularly sane approach but, hey, what do you
want from a comic book publisher?
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