Point well taken, Patrick. Pardon the vitriol of my post; must have been gastric. However, in my own defense, I would say that I did not
stipulate the speed of FTL as *infinite* in my original post.
I'll use a better example here, whilst also demonstrating further the depth of my insanity with an idea on which I've been tinkering:
I ask you to put on your science fiction hat here for just a moment, and bear with me while I stretch (currently known) reality for the sake of illustration, ok?
Suppose we were to develop a way to energize, or better still, apply a torque to the rings of Saturn (hypothetically speaking, of course -- not that we are not physically advanced enough to achieve such a feat). The rings have a natural configuration which lend themselves to manipulation, a kind of tuning fork.
Suppose further that, after taking continuous measurements of the state of the rings of Neptune over a period of, say, months or years, we will have established a baseline of predictable states.
Further suppose we were to set up an observation station equidistant from our two ringed neighbors.
If, then, upon building up the energy level of Saturn's rings, and pumping that energy with pulses, a statistically significant correspondence of changes in the state of Neptune's rings were observed to match the timing of our pulses; if we also measured the
time of traversal of these effects between the Gas Giants, and found that duration to be a matter of seconds or less, whereas normally the duration would be many minutes when the two planets were thus separated, any sane observer would conclude that therefore the phenomena were being clocked at significantly greater than light speed.
