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Originally Posted by Monahammer
There are things about quantum mechanics and potentially dimensionality we don't understand. It's probably unwise to say that FTL communication is totally impossible. But impossible with our current understanding of physics and the universe.
Is it possible without violating causality in some way? Hm.
The thing about the warp drive is that it seems to preserve a universal frame of reference- in the show. I.e. if you drive away from earth at warp factor 9, turn around and drive back at warp factor 9 after a light year, you don't wind up at past earth (unless you also whip around the sun a few times on the way lol). This is not how it would theoretically work in real life, where indeed you could wind up backwards in time. But, wouldn't this be outside of your light cone? I don't know.
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Agreed, at some point all of our laws of physics and general science will inevitably change or evolve.
While people consider the laws of physics to be absolute. There are subsets of those laws that change over time. Remember too that the universe is constantly changing, so that in itself will change reactions to the change.
I remember reading a popular mechanics article that talked about the universe itself being the key element of change and because the universe is not constant, it does force a evolution of the absolute laws.
Also the humans that are defining these laws are fallible. All it takes is a bad day after a night of vodka bombs for someone to forget to carry a 9.
Also remember that according to understanding, that cars at one time was an existential threat to survival because the human body couldn't maintain its cohesiveness if it travelled at greater then 50 mph.