<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 September 2011 12:48, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is an interesting statement. Let's (for this thread) drop the question about what we actually think of FTL or relativity, and instead look at the quite interesting meta-question "How do we judge the likeliehood of radical changes of physics?"<br clear="all">
</blockquote></div><br>Much as I am fond of QM, I never liked much SR from an aesthetical POV, let alone the severe limitations it seems to impose as far as the realm of possibilities is concerned.<br><br>But I came with years to appreciate its consistency and to some extent its "unavoidability", so I am quite at loss for the time being in assessing the conceptual consequences of an even marginal falsification of the theory...<br>
<br>But, hey, I am just a poor lawyer. Let's theorical physicists and science philosophers have their day. :-)<br><br>--<br>Stefano Vaj<br>