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faster than speed of light is possible

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  • 07-04-2009 9:20pm
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    iamhunted
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    Yes it is ... but without violating the laws of physics (as long as you have a black hole):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWwI61so5Q - though it ends up you mightnt need a black hole after all.


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    JC 2K3
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    What's this got to do with the paranormal?


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    iamhunted
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    Faster than the speed of light is something that skeptics claim to be impossible no matter what, relying on their understanding of science which they then use to declare the paranormal is rubbish.

    Im asking the same skeptics to challange their idea of science - which will therefore change their outlook on the paranormal.

    Why do you ask?


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    JC 2K3
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    An object cannot travel faster than the speed of light relative to the space which it is in.

    Just because someone doesn't state the italicised part explicitly, doesn't mean they don't understand that fact.

    And since it doesn't violate the laws of physics, it's hardly paranormal...


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    sink
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    JC 2K3 wrote: »
    And since it doesn't violate the laws of physics, it's hardly paranormal...

    It is in fact the natural physical laws as determined by natural science that hint that this might be possible, the very antithesis of paranormal.


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    iamhunted
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    not really - no-one says that the paranormal doesnt include some part of what is natural - for all we know, whats classed as the paranormal may in fact be quite natural.
    An object cannot travel faster than the speed of light relative to the space which it is in.

    Just because someone doesn't state the italicised part explicitly, doesn't mean they don't understand that fact.

    And since it doesn't violate the laws of physics, it's hardly paranormal...

    You really dont seem to have a clue where Im coming from here.


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    JC 2K3
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    I really don't....


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    Zombrex
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    I imagine his point is along the lines of "Ha! Look! Science got something wrong! Therefore my belief that the human mind can levitate bricks/ghosts are real/aliens abducted me (insert paranormal belief here) is perfectly valid because you guys used science to say it isn't and science is WRONG, dead dead wrong"

    That sort of thing

    Which is, obviously, missing the point some what.

    The most important bit about science isn't really that it gets things right or wrong (99.9999999...% of "science" is wrong, since science itself is a process of refinement based on demonstrating the mistakes in theories and creating better ones because of that).

    It is that things are studied in a scientific fashion to determine how accurate they are.


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