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Re: impossible vs. impractical
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
Mon May 8 08:42:07 1995
From: fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
To: mcn@EnGarde.com (Mike Neuman)
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 06:42:47 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199505080429.XAA13309@guardian.EnGarde.com> from "Mike Neuman" at May 7, 95 11:29:15 pm
> 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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