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   From: hatunen@cox.net   
      
   On 10 Aug 2013 20:51:02 -0400, wdstarr@panix.com (William December   
   Starr) wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   >Robert Bannister  said:   
   >   
   >> On 10/08/13 10:58 AM, William December Starr wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I'm certainly not expecting some Brilliant Lone Genius(tm) to   
   >>> discover a loophole in General Relativity ("Einstein was   
   >>> wrong!"), but "It is known to be impossible" rankles at me.  I   
   >>> have trouble believing that we know Reality and all of its rules   
   >>> completely enough to say that.  In fact, I'm not convinced that   
   >>> it's possible to know that you know everything about it.   
   >>   
   >> I am quite certain that I don't know very much about anything, but   
   >> I do believe the people who work in that field.   
   >   
   >Believe them when they say what, precisely?  Is it "FTL and time   
   >travel are not possible under the rules of the universe as we   
   >currently know and understand them" or "FTL and time travel are not   
   >possible under the rules of the universe?"   
      
   You do realize you could give the same arguments about ghosts, the   
   afterlife, and clairvoyance?   
      
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