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Old 11-12-2011, 01:53 PM
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Well, in a mathematically defined "Infinite Universe" all things that are "possible", can and will, happen. See this link ...
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The possible comprises all ideas that do not violate the most basic and global principles of science (e.g., the second law of thermodynamics; fundamental conservation laws).
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A high-surprisal hypothesis may appear impossible from one vantage point, while a different field's paradigm makes it clear that the hypothesis is well within the realm of the possible and merely stretches the limits of plausibility or probability. But only after an idea has run the scientific community's gauntlet--surviving rigorous experimental and interpretive efforts to falsify it--can it be said to move from questions of possibility to a probable or proven status.

Pathological science occurs when an investigator cuts this process short, prematurely trading in scrutiny for advocacy.
Pathological science was outlawed by both species which then paved the way forward for the development of radio technology.

As the two species are assembled from the same sub-atomic particles behaving under the same physical laws, and by the same process of scientific review, the 'idea' of FTL travel was unsupported by evidence and thus deemed not "possible" in either universe. It is thus excluded from the Theory of "The Infinite Universe".

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