That's why people laughed at Columbus
We only need the knowledge and time.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:50, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

we'd need to be able to fundamentally bugger about with the laws of physics and space-time

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Well, sort of
Space-time travel is not explicitly forbidden by current physics. It's just that the energies required and the length scales involved are phenomenally large and incredibly small respectively.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:00, Reply)

was trying not to get too sciency :-P

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I'm very sciency by nature!

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:02, Reply)

me too, but I try not to let on

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Just think of all the people who tried to get humans to fly
and how many more laughed at them or "proved" it impossible.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:13, Reply)

~2,500,000 light years away
If we can go faster than the speed of light, which isn't even mathmatically or theoretically possible at the moment, that's still a long time before we get there.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:54, Reply)

Or we find a wormhole
I know, I know. But it could be.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 11:56, Reply)

nearest one is 25k light years
Andromeda is the nearest spiral at 2.5 million
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:01, Reply)