Its not a hangup, its that your interpretation of quantum mechanics flies in the face of the No Communication Theorem. Its typical junk science sold to the masses by people like Zukav. There is no interpretation of quantum mechanics where there is a usable information carrying channel between entangled particles. At…

“only that some special cases might not necessitate paradox by the sheer act of traveling faster than the speed of causality. “

The moment you exit your light cone, you are entering the proper past of another one. THAT creates paradox. Its not so simple as proposing cosmic censorship for obvious, macroscopic…

“There are some well respected theories that at this time”

If they can disperse the energy of the LHC into a beam dump, I’m pretty sure its possible to shield a mass travelling some fraction the speed of light. The difficulty is the mass of the shield - at 0.995c you need about 40m of water-tank in front of the ship.

The whole thing about paradox? It misleads people. They say ‘well, as long as you don’t stop yourself from leaving — its all good.’ ‘Maybe the universe just forbids that interaction.’

But what really happens? The instant you step outside your light cone you are interacting a-causally with some other region of space…

“ There are those who don’t want this to be possible.”

There are those of us who don’t like to see lots of money wasted on Pons and Fleischman style scams, perpetual motion machines and patent medicines driven and encouraged by starry-eyed science fiction aficionados who failed relativity 101 and don’t have the…

Work-producing perpetual motion machines are impossible. There are very good reasons for believing this to be true. FTL is even less likely than those. In fact, if you can produce working FTL, making one of those around a space-like geodesic is probably trivial.

Its not unscientific to reject a ‘not-even-a-question’…

The coins were entangled when I put them into the envelopes. I entangled them. You’re going to say “but if someone flips that coin they won’t get the same answer as if the other person” and I’ll say yes, but nobody ever flips a photon either - they just observe its state. No information is ever transmitted…

The physics of causality doesn’t allow you to have your cake and eat it too. But I suspect “Advanced” civilizations will probably just take a copy of their civilization with them on the journey. Science-fiction ideas of galactic empires will just have to make do.

I can’t worry about this. If people wanted to be part of one society, they’d have no need to colonize far off worlds separated by vast gulfs of space time. There are enough resources in our solar system to create megastructures for huge numbers of people in one society, but nobody is talking about the theoretical…

Your 4-velocity, the only number that really matters, is not limited by the speed of light.

What information has ever propagated faster than light? Even between entangled particles? I am aware of the EPR experiment - there was no more information transmitted than if I put the same coin into two envelopes, mail them to opposite ends of the earth, and have the recipients open them. They instantly “know” what…

Be quiet guys, thats where the sleestaks live.

There are, but I think they apply more to cases of IP from one nation being published unlawfully by a publisher in a different nation with lax IP laws, ie., pirated American movies in Estonia. This involves two Japanese parties over IP that was only tangentially published outside of Japan. If it was an American anime…

I assume because you somehow break anonymity and reveal an email address which can then be used to do public records searches. This article might have some info:

No, not kidding. I have a family to consider and I’ve seen too many examples of people having pizzas delivered to their houses / swat teams called in. Yes its a risk/reward calculation, but the reward for driving a car (which IS more dangerous) is also much greater (its damn near a necessity) than the reward of…

And for your next article: ‘How to Survive a SWATing Now That You’ve Decided to Stream Games to An Anonymous Audience of Disaffected Manchildren’

This is why I don’t stream. The risks of one person deciding to ruin my day and get it on camera hugely outweigh the rewards of sharing my gameplay.

Its not, apparently its fairly common for Japanese holders of copyright to not understand why Americans are calling them all the time for permission to use a photo. However, copyright law is generally applied in the country where the work published.

I didn’t see the OP saying he could do better. Can you point me to a quote?