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Letter: Letters : Galactic spider

Published 20 September 1997

From Charles Norman

nc566@gre.ac.uk

I have theoretically managed to break the speed of light, c, without
gaining any noticeable mass. It’s quite simple. If you scale down the whole
Universe to the size of my bedroom, you can run from one wall to another
(effectively billions and billions of light years) in the space of 3.142
seconds.

Scaling this back up to the Universal scale, I have covered the entire
Universe in a matter of seconds, breaking the speed of light several
millionfold. Why are all these scientists making such a big fuss about this
faster-than-light travel business?

Incidentally, I did not encounter any alien races out there apart from a big
spider on my lampshade, which when scaled back up to Universal standards took up
the space of five whole galaxies.

Issue no. 2100 published 20 September 1997

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