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Old 23-06-2011, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Zaps View Post
It's going to take a wholesale reconstruction of fundamental physics as we know it, and there is not even one single sound reason to suppoe that can or will happen, or even needs to.

The well-understood and tested math strongly indicates that practical human interstellar travel is so unlikely as to be safely considered impossible. It's not about playing origami with the numbers, or hoping for a eureka moment.
.. and given that what you say is so, and given that it has taken humans several hundreds (if not thousands) of years to come up with the descriptive language of nature, it would appear that it would take the same amount of time to come up with some alternative.

This idea of tossing it all out the window and changing horses within a century, is pure fantasy.

… Pseudoscience or science fiction …
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