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Originally Posted by goatboy
I think it's an awesome idea. Not a person on the planet can say with any form of certainty that some type of FTL will never come to age. First, someone needs to prove that technological development will stutter to a natural grinding halt, because all the universe's secret tidbits of knowledge have already been plucked from the cosmic apple tree.
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No, that is not at all necessary. Assuming a causal universe, FTL will never be invented. You can pick any two of relativity, causality, and FTL/time travel, but you can't have all three, and the first is verified and no sign of any violation of the second has ben seen. The issue is completely independent of the finiteness of possible knowledge or technological development.