Liberal Forum

Maybe... But you say it is instantaneous. So, with no time lag at all, the traveler has to know where the destination point in space is at this moment from light years away. And with no static reference points, it would have to be magic...  There no feedback that is fast enough to be instant. Even l...

ha ha ha ha ha Intellectually evolving from dumb to ignorant rants....

...'political power' derives from possession of 'the gun'... 'our' job is to make damn sure that those 'with the gun' are the very very 'best' among us....open honest frequent vigorous 'competitions of ideas about government' could easily be constructed....but as long as 150,000,000 of you gd republ...

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yes. That's what happened to me with the theory of relativity.   ...

lol... I know what you mean... I have this book by Stephen Hawking in which he explains it in simple language... you read that and think.. I can follow that... I can follow that.. and then... wait, what?... there once was moment I got it all.. but a moment later it was gone...  ...

I see what you mean... but you always need to take that into account when travelling through space... when NASA sends a robot to Mars they don't send it to where Mars is... they send it to the point where Mars will be at the time it arrives... a spaceship with warp drive would work the same way.. S...

There was a time when I thought we shouldn't mess with this thing or that thing. I'm not so sure of that viewpoint. I'm not educated enough to know. Most of us aren't about much of anything. A wise man knows how much he doesn't know. Philadelphia Experiment is a made up story in my view. Lots of...

the MOST fundamental aspect of power is persuasion. even the paradigm of physical force is about persuasion. You persuaded your soldier to follow orders of using force. And your sort of 'expert' power is another aspect of persuasion...XYZ is true sort of thing.  XYZ is the will of god is another....

Although I mostly agree with you, there are nuances that I think you're missing.  Power is never static, and the source of power changes over time with different values, culture, popular notions, etc... There are certain things that will always provide power, such as the threat of physical force, a...