nopeda, on 23 April 2012 - 11:27 PM, said:
I accept that maybe nothing can travel faster than 186K miles per second relative to anything else in the universe, but I believe it is so unlikely that I have great confidence it's not the case.
Why do you have confidence that it is not the case? You have failed miserably in providing any references, and it has taken the entire thread for you to finally admit that 186,000 is the upper limit as proposed by man.
You have not proposed why you have confidence, just that you want to.
nopeda, on 23 April 2012 - 11:27 PM, said:
Also considering the vastness of the universe it seems more likely than not to me that there are beings in the universe who can travel considerably faster than 186K miles per second relative to a number of things, even if none of them have ever been to this planet.
So you still do not understand E=MC2. Well, one cannot say I did not try to help you understand it! If you had been abe to wrap your head around matter-energy transfer, you would see why your proposal lacks sense.
Why do you feel another life form has managed to re-write physics and overcome the insane barriers that faster than light travel offers? What reason could you have for insisting that the universe is different in principal for other species? Why do physics apply to some species and not others? Cannot happen that way can it?
nopeda, on 23 April 2012 - 11:27 PM, said:
Also I would be more surprised to learn that there are no beings with project planets anywhere in the universe, than I would to learn that we live on one.
Because you think it is a kewlers idea? I have seen you present no other reasoning? I think it is very illogical to regurgitate the works of a master and present them as some sort of personal hypothesis. I cannot see why you would think this is the case, and earth has a geological history that conflicts with this imaginative ideal.