Tommio

Good point and in evolutionary terms, the ability to conserve more individuals would help immmensily. However, the ability to think independantly also means that people have very different ideas, and whilst this could be one of the greatest evolutionary steps - the ability to pool different ideas and get viable solutions- it has also doomed humanity to never unite. These differences in thought that there has always been conflict, and there probably will. Evolution has made this human nature. Perhaps the greatest challenge that will be thrown to humanity is to create a peaceful world.

Your right, in a physical state anyway. Surley the epitamy of human evolution will be to lose the need for a physical state. The idea of a species reaching a state where it is outside time and state seems far fetched, but evolution has done some pretty strange things already. However evolution implies survival of the fittest, and it's clear humans are degrading in that respect as the gene pool is being added to by people, who in a natural environment without aid, would not be alive to do this. But perhaps this is why humans will continue to live - the ability to care and supplement individuals who would otherwise not survive. This ability meant that stephen Hawkin is still alive and adding to the sum knowledge of mankind.

Would it be plausible for the next series of 'phases' be - 1) The species gains complete control over it's planet - crops, weather, devastating circumstances such as earthquakes and volcanoes, disease, ageing etc. 2) The species gains complete control over it's solar system - harness suns power, be able to protect itself from devestating circumstanges, eg asteroids. etc 3) The species gains complete control over its universe - the ability to tavel around the entire universe instantly, create and destroy 'other universes' and be able to control it's own destiny and evade the complete destruction of said species. if this is acceptable mankind is only in pahse 1, so we have a very long way to go, if we are actually capable of these things.

It is correct that light is both a wave and massless particle, which is why light travels in quanta. Another way to look at this problem is that E=mc² means that does mean that only a photon can acheive c, the speed of light. - E (at rest) = mc² so m = E (at rest) / c² substituting in momentum E (kenetic) = 1/2 pv where p = momentum (mv) so E (total) =approx= pc which is exact for photons but not for mass Which is an explanation of the previous post. However when an 'object' is travelling faster than light it is a different matter as the theory states that the less energy the 'object' has - the faster it will travel. WORK THAT ONE OUT?!?

Just a note that centrafrugal force does not exist, i know, wierd right? What you are talking about it centropetal force, which is the attraction of an orbiting mass around a point mass. This would have the desired result of creating an 'outward' force which in turn would allow the occupants to work more efficiently. This force would mean that their muscles/bones would not waste as they would have a 'load' on them. The trouble is getting the rotation speed correct and stable. Also would your 'spinning' craft be an unsuported ring such as 'O' or would it be connected to a central object which causes the motion. If the latter it would be very hard to keep the craft stable as the ring and object would act on each other, pulling it out of orbit or off course.