Re: The NEW hard science fiction

In <1140139925.687248.258780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gene Ward Smith <genewardsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You don't object to a physicist using FTL or time travel, but she can't
use psi? Get real.

FTL, at least, is a good deal more plausible than psi. With FTL, you at least
have the excuse that we don't quite know everything about high-energy physics
yet, and maybe one of those things we don't know yet allows for FTL. Psi,
on the other hand, is constrained to involve only physics on energy scales
accessible to human biology. We do pretty much know all of the physics
involved there, and there isn't anything one could plausibly implement psi
out of.

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