Many years ago, even as late as the 1940's and 1950's, people used to think that breaking the sound barrier would have some dire or extreme consequenses such as traveling through time, or causing some catastrophic event. It was also widely believed that breaking the sound barrier would be impossible.
Today, it seems that a lot of both scientists and laypeople believe some similar things about the speed of light! Do you think that 50 or 100 years from now if/when we break the "light barrier" that people will look back and laugh about what we believed to be true?
2006-08-04
03:20:14
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