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Re: impossible vs. impractical


From: fc () all net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 06:42:47 -0400 (EDT)


  Oh good. I think possibility has practicality implied. After all, if you 
can generate an infinite amount of energy, you CAN go the speed of light 
(according to the current laws of physics), so there, it's not impossible.

But according to current physics, there is a finite amount of total
energy in the Universe, and thus it is impossible to get the infinite
energy required to do this - again, impossible, not infeasible.

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