<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I wrote:</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>> I would not be too concerned about any Earth shattering<br>> consequences if it were found that neutrinos were found<br>> to travel slightly faster than the speed of light - or other<br>> means of signaling faster than light were discovered.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Eugen <span id="misspell-0" class="mark">Leitl</span> wrote:</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>> </span><span>I'd call retrograde <span id="misspell-1" class="mark">signalling</span> in time (which can be<br>> indefinite via a chain of routers) and causality violations<br>> pretty Earth-shattering. It would e.g. allow post-Singularity<br>> entities to reach back in time, which can produce some<br>> pretty dramatic
pyrotechnics. If the reshaping of <span id="misspell-2" class="mark">timelines</span><br>> is iterative, you might not want to talk to even near-term<br>> future.</span><br></div><div>If it is verified that there are particles traveling faster than</div><div>the speed of light Special Relativity will unravel and </div><div>questions of time travel and causality violations will</div><div>disappear as well.</div><div> </div><div>Lorentz Ether Theory and related theories do not suffer</div><div>from this type of brittle inability to adapt to new </div><div>observation.</div><div> </div><div>Dennis May</div></div></body></html>