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by HeadsUpHigh 2882 days ago
There are huge parts of physics that remain a mystery( dark matter, dark energy, the big bang, like how on Earth does inflation make sense, a ton of crazy particle physics that go completely over my head). And the funny part is that a lot of these can't be really fit into our current models in a meaningful way. So until we deal with all those I still have hope for an FTL drive.
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Physics is very difficult, and magical thinking is much easier and more fun. Relativity is a description of the geometry of the universe, and any subsequent theory will need to explain the same observations. These observations both prohibit any form of FTL, and suggest that a universe with FTL would almost certainly contain causality violations. The hope that down will someday become up is ill-founded, and the effects of this would not be what you would want.