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by tachyoff 3034 days ago
Except TangoTrotFox's original statement was:

> The speed of light is not a speed limit on effective travel, but on observation.

Which is absolutely factually false.

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No, it's correct - but speaking of physics on pop forums is pointless, because of the Dunning Kruger effect.

There tend to be three groups of people:

- Those that accept things at face value, which is quite silly. What I'm saying should challenge all intuitive notions of reality making open acceptance simply bizarre.

- Those that reject things at face value. No better than the first and generally driven by an extremely superficial understanding of physics. As Feynman phrased it, people sipping martinis at a cocktail party and discussing relativity, "Ah yes.. how insightful. Though I think some things may indeed be inherently correct. Mmm..."

- And those with a strong physics background already, to whom you provide no additional value to anyhow.