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To: IceShark who wrote (62138)	6/11/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: Yogizuna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Ice, I was going to use the example of the sound barrier, but thought the fear of falling off the edge of the world had a much better sound to it. <G> And I realize that there are certainly some very real and formidible obstacles in our way before we can pass the "light barrier", but that does not mean it cannot or will not be done. Three or four hundred years from now, scientists of that time will most likely be very amazed by our current "backwardness", just as we are today at the state science was in 400 years ago. Time makes more things possible and eliminates "walls and barriers". Yogi

To: IceShark who wrote (62138)	6/11/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: Merritt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Ice: I read an article a year or two ago (N.Y.Times) that said that data collected by the Hubble Telescope from studying a very distant object, indicated that the speed of light may not be an absolute. I believe Einstein himself, revised his theory of relativity after Hubble discovered that the Crab Nebulae was another galaxy rather than just a curious collection of dust and such in space. It would be fitting if the Hubble Telescope caused another re-write. Science is based on what we see and what we think we can prove, as well as some brilliant logic. As more information is gathered, views and conclusions are altered. Right now, the speed of light is for our purposes, a wall. But I once read about a physicist, on entering a graduate program in the late teens of this century, being counseled not to expect too much because all the great discoveries had already been made...his job would be to tidy up the details.<g>