Could any life travel faster than the speed of light? (Including digital life.)
Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?
Do we know much about dark matter yet? Could it travel faster than light, or is it bound by the same rules as normal matter?
Dark matter, if it is matter (and there are good but not totally confirmed reasons to think it is) is just that...matter. It would really be not that special at all, except that it doesn't interact electromagnetically, but this doesn't particularly have deep implications - we already know about particles like that, neutrinos, but they happen to be lighter than the ones that would make up dark matter.
A university professor of mine[0] who was (perhaps still is) involved directly in international scientific efforts to examine the expansion of the universe once explained the speed of expansion of the universe to me in a way that made perfect sense.
Unfortunately I can't remember the precise details but the concept relates to a change in scale of the distance between bodies.
My best approximation is this: the measurable distance between two points can increase without either point moving if the nature of what is between the points changes.
You can pseudo-simulate the concept as follows:
1. Open Google maps at a reasonable "normal" scale
2. Affix two dots to your screen and take a guess as to the distance between them as if the dots were actually on the map
3. Zoom out the map quickly as far as it will go
4. Guess again the distance between the dots
The ground distance between the dots increases dramatically. One could argue that the dots moved apart at a great speed, possibly greater than the speed of light if the change in distance is sufficient.
Clearly we know that the dots did not move. The scale of what was between them moved.
During the initial stages of the universe things behaved very oddly.
[0] http://www.brunel.ac.uk/cedps/electronic-computer-engineerin...
We're nowhere near it, but clearly at the stage of: we know that we know next to nothing about it. Just have a look at the discussion around the Alcubierre Drive and you'll get the feeling that it is pie-in-the-sky science.
So, I'd wager it's not a "very probably no". It's a "we have no clue".
This potentially raises paradoxes etc, and may also be impossible, but it doesn't break the barrier in the above sense.
May be somewhere in the universe, or within the black hole, space is malleable enough to allow faster than light travel. It's just a concept, but a very interesting one.
Perhaps someone can point me to a full description of this theory.
I'm guessing the author used 'C space' as a way of describing '3 dimensional' (ie a = 1, b = 2, c = 3). So 'C space beings' would be limited to light speed travel (unless we build meat containers that could manipulate or penetrate 'D space')
In any case, there's already enough literature on this subject to last you a life time so if you have any question then it's an interesting subject to read. And by "literature" I don't mean "Star Trek" (though their "Warp Drives" are based on a similar premise or warping 3 dimensional space - despite obviously being a work of fiction)