All of the examples I gave break (or appears to break) pretty serious invariants of the universe.
Being able to instantiate cubes of matter would break the conservation of mass (unless it's taken from somewhere, and then would break relativity unless it's subject to light-speed limits).
Mysterious observable action at a distance breaks relativity, as you mentioned. You can see it in a more direct fashion, too: if it lets you alter something that's far away with less delay than it takes to get there at c, then that doesn't really work too well with relativity.
Finally, free energy makes the laws of thermodynamics go away.
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Date: 2012-03-16 05:20 pm (UTC)Being able to instantiate cubes of matter would break the conservation of mass (unless it's taken from somewhere, and then would break relativity unless it's subject to light-speed limits).
Mysterious observable action at a distance breaks relativity, as you mentioned. You can see it in a more direct fashion, too: if it lets you alter something that's far away with less delay than it takes to get there at c, then that doesn't really work too well with relativity.
Finally, free energy makes the laws of thermodynamics go away.