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To: kash johal who wrote (113632)	6/1/2000 3:15:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Respond to of 1574050

Kash, The main focus was on time travel, worm holes etc. The whole speed of light barrier thing is a consequence of relativistic dynamics -- in the realm of large spaces and long durations (relatively speaking, of course. ;-)) where everything is continuous. At the other end of the spectrum is quantum mechanics, where the existence of infinitesimal particles in space and time is described in terms of probabilistic wave functions, and everything is discrete (even time itself). In this model, I'm sure there is a probability function that describes the particle's momentum (and, hence, velocity, if we assume a mass), showing a certain probability that the particle is traveling faster than the speed of light (in somewhat of an analogy to quantum tunneling). Pravin.