I'm wondering if part of the problem with trying to come up with technology which allows us to propel ourselves vast distances "faster than the speed of light", is to do with how we abstract/describe the problem (and the proposed solution) in language.
For example; instead of saying "faster than the speed of light", would the problem not be better described using "faster than the speed of causality" ?
After all, isn't c really just the speed of Causality in a vacuum? (i.e. the time it takes for a beam of light from a source to be detected at, say, a distance of 500,000 kilometres, is basically the rate at which Causality allows that light to get from the emitter to the detector.)
And isn't the speed of Causality, basically like some kind of inertia-like quality of spacetime? (Apologies in advance - I'm trying to describe what's in my head as best I can using... language ;) ) For example - the speed of "light"/Causality through water is slower than the speed of "light"/Causality through a vacuum.
(And mea culpa - I am a layman, trying to make sense of all this in as best a way I can. I'm not sure if what I wrote makes any kind of sense (it does in my head))
For example; instead of saying "faster than the speed of light", would the problem not be better described using "faster than the speed of causality" ?
After all, isn't c really just the speed of Causality in a vacuum? (i.e. the time it takes for a beam of light from a source to be detected at, say, a distance of 500,000 kilometres, is basically the rate at which Causality allows that light to get from the emitter to the detector.)
And isn't the speed of Causality, basically like some kind of inertia-like quality of spacetime? (Apologies in advance - I'm trying to describe what's in my head as best I can using... language ;) ) For example - the speed of "light"/Causality through water is slower than the speed of "light"/Causality through a vacuum.
(And mea culpa - I am a layman, trying to make sense of all this in as best a way I can. I'm not sure if what I wrote makes any kind of sense (it does in my head))