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Old 17-June-2007, 03:06 PM
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This is where the movie "Contact" had it completely backward.

Yes.. they used "wormholes' but the same principal was in effect. (I think)
No, it's not in effect. The wormhole idea was developed for Sagan by Kip Thorne (I think that's who is credited). The idea is a sort of a bridge between two points of spacetime.
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If we lived at light-speed, we would live all of our entire life at one instant.
The question is, whose instant?
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