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>If we can't travel faster than the speed of light

using existing understanding of Nature - we can. At least the Universe provides the example of galaxies traveling with faster than the speed of light relative to each other. The same machinery is suggested in the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

The opponents state that the energy requirement of the drive is higher than the whole Universe's energy. Obviously it is wrong statement as we already have whole galaxies mentioned above and whose faster than light speed obviously takes less than the whole Universe's energy.



Galaxies are not actually moving faster than light. The distance between them is growing at a rate that would suggest FTL speeds because the universe is expanding.


looks like you didn't get it that the drive i linked to is supposed to use the same principle of space expansion and contraction.


Galaxies are not spaceships. Just because the natural expansion of the universe affects galaxies (and everything else) doesn't mean it's possible to artificially expand and contract the universe.


just because God strikes heretics with lightning doesn't mean that it is possible to artificially create and route electrical current


The fact that cats hunt mice doesn't mean we can't have megapixel cameras.




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