“…let's notice that when you move at the speed of light, on a telephone, you do not have a private identity and when you don't have a private identity, or rather when you don't have a body, you don't relate to natural law, your gravity has no control, over you at the speed of light, you are suddenly outside of the natural scheme of things, you're a Superman.
Televised Debate on Nature and Media, Cambridge U., 1978, transcript, 12:38
Year: 1978
Chapter:
Speedups
Compiled by William Kuhns
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