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[–] JPSound@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (3 children)

And to add the cherry on top, should you ever reach his arbitrary speed limit, it distorts time itself. Even if you flew through space at c for a little weekend getaway, you'd return to a now foreign world only to find time had skipped forward +2,000 years, your entire family and social circles long dead from old age with societal and technical advancements beyond what you could have ever thought possible, completely isolating you. You're now doomed to live in an unfamiliar world where not a single human speaks your language nor can they relate to you in any meaning way.

AKA, gods speeding ticket.

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I have a solution for this: When you travel somewhere, travel with everyone's mind at light speed. You see we think about lightspeed wrong. It's meant for whole species to migrate. Not 1 individual.

Another alternative is just take a snapshop of everyone's minds at that point, then let them continue living even with your snapshot. When you return you pick back off where you left off. Living in your own dimension. The other dimension is long gone but you miss nothing.

Unless Artificial General Intelligence is developed, then perhaps some pattern could be found and the future humans can decode some of what you're saying.

Maybe even some brain-neuron scanner type of thing to measure your exact thoughts.