I hate my laptop. I write a long piece about epistemology, inductivism, a priori reasoning and empirical knowledge and it freezes on me. I can’t blame it really. It was merely waffle that was going to loosely segue into the news that a certain Dr. Franklin Felber has this week put forward a theory about how it might be possible for man to travel at speeds near to the speed of light.

I’m waiting for Sevitz to jump on this and discuss it at length because of recent (read last 6 months) discussions on his site about how much he gets annoyed when people say “One day humans might travel faster than the speed of light” and start putting forward philosophical arguments about why you can’t make absolute statements about the state of affairs in the future. But here, in a dumbed down Metro version, for all to consume, is a theory from a (presumably) respected scientist, highlighting how a craft could be accelerated to a great fraction of the speed of light and overcoming the problem of a) getting the energy to do so and b) the enourmous g-forces that would accompany such acceleration.

And what’s more, none of it contradicts of falls out of the theory of relativity, general, special or otherwise.