Thursday, January 19, 2012

Faster than the speed of light

In Star Trek TNG, Jean Luc Picard's manouvre that made him famous was to engage warp drive so as travel faster than light speed and so trick his opponents into thinking he was not where he was. It is a kind of expansion on the notion of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in that if I know where you are, you not actually there.
If we know where we are then that is where we are not, or if we know where we are going then we don't know where we are going!!
Life is like that!!