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High school physics, yes. But when it comes to more advanced physics, I'd say that some researchers would beg to differ. I mean, it's rather silly to proclaim that something is not physically possible after it's been shown to be working.

I didn't know physics change from high school into adulthood... Dang, I wish I had known that, I would of sued gravity.

You would have been more accurate in your post if you had referred to the fact that there is still a lot we don't know about quantum physics, and this may fall into that realm. Quantum physics often don't follow the laws of physics, but both physics and quantum physics stay the same during the transition from high school into adulthood.

 

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Quantum physics often don't follow the laws of physics

Dude, quantum physics are physics. My point was, what you learn in school is basics, approximations. Newton's laws, for example, might hold for everyday cases, but you don't take them as gospel and say 'Einstein's theory is not physics'. When researchers find something which conflict with your understanding of physics then (assuming it's possible to recreate it, etc.) it means that your understanding isn't complete, not that what they did isn't physically possible.

I've seen lots of people claim that things are physically impossible, things which were later taken for granted. It's not bad to question claims of breakthroughs, but it's also a good idea to realise that unless you have an alternate explanation for the results, your claim that they contradict physics carry very little weight.

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There's another issue here, the thought that a physical limitation will block technological advance completely, when it's only an obstacle which can be overcome. As an example that I think is somewhat close to the issue at hand, take hard drives. Long ago people talked that it would be impossible to make them denser because bits will become too small for a drive head to distinguish. And they were right! So drive heads make several reading of several bits and extract the exact bit sequence from them using clever calculations.

So while the physical limit is there, there are ways to live with it and advance the technology further.