<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:09 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 03/09/2021 18:11, Adrian Tymes
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">The
matter at hand was the objection that FTL always causes time
travel, which I believe is not a true claim.</blockquote>
<p>What I was trying to say was, if FTL travel <i>can</i> result in
time-travel, then that means that FTL travel is not possible (on
the premise that time-travel is not possible), not that it always
does.</p>
<p>Unless, somehow, only non-time-travel-causing FTL journeys were
possible (so your FTL drive mysteriously stops working when you
try certain trips).</p></div></blockquote><div>Alternatively: some proposed forms of FTL could result in time travel. Those particular forms of FTL are not possible. This has no effect on other proposed forms of FTL. This is not dependent on where you go (that is: not just for certain trips), only how you go.</div></div></div>