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Its funny so many people are defending here that FTL travel is actually possible. No people. Its NOT possible. There isnt ANY doubt about it. If you think it is, you simply does not understand the nature of space time and relativity.
Now... FTL itself is impossible... but as it was mentioned, sci-fi usually deals with warp drives or hiperspace. NONE OF THOSE are FTL travel really. In fact, the article author fails to mention WHICH books mention FTL travel as really going faster than the speed of light.
Warp Drive was explained by the author. Yes, it probably needs strange matter... or something else similar. So what? Still its possible. As for the creation of strange matter or devices to distort space-time, thats up for fiction. But still its fiction that follows physics rules.
Hiperspace is usually described as an alternate dimension/parallel universe of the sorts, where distances are smaller than in our space-time. Thus, a ship doesnt travels faster than light at hiperspace. But travelling 1 million km in hiperspace, at 1km/s speed will get you to a point in space-time several light years away from the point where you entered hiperspace. But you NEVER travelled faster than light.
Now... FTL itself is impossible... but as it was mentioned, sci-fi usually deals with warp drives or hiperspace. NONE OF THOSE are FTL travel really. In fact, the article author fails to mention WHICH books mention FTL travel as really going faster than the speed of light.
Warp Drive was explained by the author. Yes, it probably needs strange matter... or something else similar. So what? Still its possible. As for the creation of strange matter or devices to distort space-time, thats up for fiction. But still its fiction that follows physics rules.
Hiperspace is usually described as an alternate dimension/parallel universe of the sorts, where distances are smaller than in our space-time. Thus, a ship doesnt travels faster than light at hiperspace. But travelling 1 million km in hiperspace, at 1km/s speed will get you to a point in space-time several light years away from the point where you entered hiperspace. But you NEVER travelled faster than light.
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This theory is nonsense.
The most easily found flaws:
1 - if Earth was expanding to this day, there wouldnt be continents collinding right now
2 - its a false assumption of the uneducated that the first supercontinent on Earth was Pangea. It was only THE LAST supercontinent. Scientists have evidences of many other supercontinents that appeared and disappeared in the last 4 billion years (Pangea is only 200 million years old).
The expanding Earth Theory cannot explain all the evidence for previous supercontinents and the continuous cycle of collision and separation of the tectonic plates.
The most easily found flaws:
1 - if Earth was expanding to this day, there wouldnt be continents collinding right now
2 - its a false assumption of the uneducated that the first supercontinent on Earth was Pangea. It was only THE LAST supercontinent. Scientists have evidences of many other supercontinents that appeared and disappeared in the last 4 billion years (Pangea is only 200 million years old).
The expanding Earth Theory cannot explain all the evidence for previous supercontinents and the continuous cycle of collision and separation of the tectonic plates.
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"4) Human-looking aliens. There’s no reason there couldn’t be human-looking aliens. In fact, people who claim to have seen aliens see basically humanoid-looking creatures"
Sorry pal, there is a lot of reasons there shouldnt be human looking aliens. For an alien to look like a human, they would need to have followed all the same evolutionary path as humans! That means, they would need to have evolved from apes, who would have evolved from monkeys, who would have evolved from other simples mammals, who would have evolved from... well, you see where I am going.
The reason we are like we are is merely an accident, billions of years of natural selection and random mutation, where animals have adapted to their specific environments! How many millions of animal species there existed so far on Earth? How many look so similar to us?
"5) Half-breed aliens. Humans and hamsters have compatible sperm and eggs. Strange, I know. And certainly a birth from such a joining would be improbable. But it’s possible."
Although I doubt humans and hamsters can generate offspring even if by in vitro fertilization... humans and hamsters are CLOSE COUSINS on the huge Earth tree of life. Aliens wouldnt even BELONG to that tree of life! Even if they had DNA with the same nucleotids, double helix, etc, etc (already quite hard), they would be so different from humans that they would be LESS COMPATIBLE with us than is a Sea Spounge and a Human.