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Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer

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Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer

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.

HN points to it in warp drive discussions as a math-free explanation of why superluminal travel causes causality problems.

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