[ExI] Faster than light??

[Dennis May]

I wrote:
 
> I would not be too concerned about any Earth shattering
> consequences if it were found that neutrinos were found
> to travel slightly faster than the speed of light - or other
> means of signaling faster than light were discovered.
 
Eugen Leitl wrote:
 
> I'd call retrograde signalling in time (which can be
> indefinite via a chain of routers) and causality violations
> pretty Earth-shattering. It would e.g. allow post-Singularity
> entities to reach back in time, which can produce some
> pretty dramatic pyrotechnics. If the reshaping of timelines
> is iterative, you might not want to talk to even near-term
> future.

If it is verified that there are particles traveling faster than
the speed of light Special Relativity will unravel and 
questions of time travel and causality violations will
disappear as well.
 
Lorentz Ether Theory and related theories do not suffer
from this type of brittle inability to adapt to new 
observation.
 
Dennis May
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