(June 12, 2014 at 2:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I've seen this sort of thing before, about shifting an area of spacetime containing a spacecraft rather than the vehicle itself. As I recall, one of the minor drawbacks mentioned at the time was the immense power requirements, something like a single burst of energy greater than all the energy generated in human history. Apparently, such a release of energy would likely vaporise the Earth and probably the Sun as well.
I suspect - and hope - that all these stumbling blocks are overcome, within my lifetime for preference.
I don't recall hearing. I do recall reading that research in the 90s indicated you'd need a Jupiter-mass object for this to work, but that research in the last few years shows that can be overcome.
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