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I have heard this mentioned several times with this exact wording, that faster than light travel would break/violate causality and I do not exactly understand why and how it would do that. Could someone more well-versed in physics explain to me why that would be the case? Or is it not the case? (Yes, I am fully aware, that faster than light speeds are impossible in real life, but I am more curios about how it would hypothetically affect physics, were it possible). I am somewhat familiar with physics and more so with mathematics (engineering student), if that helps anyone to explain it at an appropriate level.

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[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Has anyone actually proven no violation of causality? Wikipedia seemed to suggest that it's not physically impossible to have a wormhole, take one of the ends on a round trip so that it doesn't age as much, and you'd be left with a situation where you can go in one end and come out in the past.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No—“no violation of causality” isn’t a physical law that can be formulated, much less proven. It’s just our intuitive feeling that anything physically possible should also be comprehensible.