Questions tagged [faster-than-light]
"Faster-than-light", also known as superluminal velocities, refers to any sort of travel at a speed greater than the speed of light. Prohibited in mainstream physics due to the Special theory of relativity.
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Chosing a reference frame in which the Earth is at rest and doesn't rotate
We may choose a non-rotating earth as our reference frame and ask ourselves: how about the planetary and stellar motions. A star at a distance of 10 million light years would turn around the earth in ...
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What are some scenarios where FTL information transfer would violate causality?
I've always heard people saying, "Faster than light information transfer can't happen because it would violate causality! Effects can precede their causes!"
However, I'm trying to think of a ...
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