Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
Overview
A PBS Space Time episode explaining why faster-than-light travel is equivalent to travelling back in time, using relativity and Minkowski diagrams for different observers.
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HN points to it in warp drive discussions as a math-free explanation of why superluminal travel causes causality problems.
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Sources
Video by PBS Space Time, played through YouTube.
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