I Think Faster Than Light Travel is Possible. Here's Why.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Commenters recommend it for a compelling, accessible case against treating the speed of light as a hard limit.
What it is
Sabine Hossenfelder explains why she thinks faster-than-light travel may not be ruled out. She argues that the standard objections from special relativity are inconclusive.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2023 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends baja_blast · 2023-06 · on “US Congress doubles down on explosive claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs”
Warp drives and wormholes do not necessarily break the laws of physics. Sabine Hossenfelder does a good job explaining why the limits imposed by special relativity are not valid arguments: [this video] As for a breakaway civilization, don't you think people would notice resources missing or the insane usage of resources by what would have to be a massive civilization be noticed? If you take the claims at face value, that these things operate as if inertia does not apply already "breaks physics". And if that is the case ET would make more sense than mole people. But it is also possible there is nothing to this at all. For me it's ET or a Psyop.
Recommends prettyStandard · 2023-09 · on “She got famous on YouTube. Now it helps fund her research in quantum gravity”
She does seem to have a pretty compelling argument that the speed of light may not be the maximum speed. It's not that crack pot. [this video]
Cites maxbond · 2023-04 · on “Sabine Hossenfelder: I think faster than light travel is possible. Here's why”
Can we switch the link to [this video] ? The blog doesn't really provide any additional information, and it obscures that you'll have to watch the video to hear her arguments (and I've gathered that many people are only here for text content & abstain from videos).