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Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> 
> On 2016-08-28 08:22, SteveGG wrote:
> > This, the very "nearest", is still over 4 light years away !
> >
> > Obviously, there'll never be anything, "to and / or fro" .
> >
> > Communications ?
> >
> > "Hi !"
> > < 4+ years >
> > "Hi !"
> > <4+ years >
> > "Tell us about yourself."
> > < 4+ years >
> > etc, etc, etc ...
> 
> Asimov had the solution to this problem back in 1962, when he wrote
> "My Son, the Physicist".
> 
> --
> Michael F. Stemper
> This post contains greater than 95% post-consumer bytes by weight.


Science fiction is just another word for...thought experiments, and 'thought experiments' is just another word for ...science fiction.


Relativity...is 'just a theory', a thought experirment..science fiction.

Relativity is science fiction, is it not? It's still a ...theory. 


Relativity, possibly true but that is not known or proven to be true, ...a theory, just a theory.



To put it simply...

all theories are science fiction, because all science fiction are thought experiments, and
thought experiments is just another word for science fiction.

It's a loop you cannot get out of.