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   From: wdstarr@panix.com   
      
   In article <1376368854@sheol.org>,   
   throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) said:   
      
   > IMO, the bit is "if the rules describing the universe are lorentz   
   > invariant, then either FTL or time travel can be used to construct   
   > closed timelike loops, and a) those seem a very unlikely thing for   
   > the universe to allow,   
      
   Didn't somebody famous say the same thing about black holes?   
      
   > and also b) by this point, it seems very unlikely that the   
   > actually-for-really-true rules that really-for-true describe the   
   > real-(no-really-the-real-one)-universe aren't lorentz invariant.   
   > At least locally.   
      
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