nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html

  Btw, there's a very common misconception about the Theory of Relativity,
even among people who should know better.

  The ToR does *not* prohibit the distance between two points growing
faster than c. On the contrary, it actually *predicts* (as a consequence
of the GR equations) that it's possible.

  What it does prohibit is anything *travelling* from one point to another
faster than c, which is a subtly (but drastically) different thing.

  Thus eg. the cosmic inflation theory is not inherently against the ToR.
The equations allow it to happen.

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                                                          - Warp

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