Yes, somewhere in the back of my mind I knew this. This does not
mean that information has to be transmitted by energy or matter
TRANSFER (although no know examples are known).
For example "charge" can move faster than light. You have a very
long plastic wire and a laser light which scans it from end to end so
that the point of illumination on the wire moves faster than light.
This plastic is such that when so illuminated it becomes momentarily
charged there. When you do this the point of charge moves faster
than light. So what - this is purely an illusion isn't it? No this
moving charge actually produces an magnetic field.
This does not, of course show that information can be transferred in
such a manner from A to B. The point is that the laws of physics do
not talk (much) about information, merely energy or matter or fields
etc. It is assumed that these are the only ways information can be
transmitted. This is an assumption.
Another point (related to dons) is that there is no possible
complete containment for energy and matter. Even a black hole gives
off energy and matter due to quantum effects at its event horizen as
Steven Hawkins showed.
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