Originally posted by DA Morgan:
dehammer wrote:
"theory is something that is projected from what is known, has some facts that are pr oven, and some things that are not yet proven. once they are tested, either the theory is discarded, corrected or proven."
NO! And not just NO but damned NO!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
Please try educating yourself just once before posting. i have.
Theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on the context and their methodologies. In common usage, people use the word "theory" to signify "conjecture", "speculation", or "opinion." In this sense, "theories" are opposed to "facts"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory there are ppl that are working on faster than light theory and this is one of them. in order to prove or disprove whether or not ppl can go faster than light, the must first speculate, then theorise, then look for ways of disproving or proving the theories.
i understand how this works. its been theorized that things can go faster than light if they can seperate themselfs from the things in this universe. its possible that we might never go to .99 light, if we can learn to go around that restriction first. from what ive read the speed of light restriction is only a theory, albet one that has had some test that support it.
i wonder if they could create an energy field that would use what ever it is that cause the second pulse to be created, and project it in front of the ship. then the data from the ship would hit the field long before the ship, creating two copies. then if the second hit the original they would cansil out leaving only the version of the ship created in by the field, which would repeat it causing the ship to effectively skip though space. it would arrive at its destination long before the light from its launch arrived.
