FTL

[Creed of Heresy]

It's more possible than you think.

http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-rev...ip-designs

Nothing travels faster than light. 'Tis true.

But space-time can move however fast it wants.

Warp the fabric of time and space around you. No propulsion necessary.

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I mean obviously there's problems; mass-energy issues. If we solved that, we'd have perpetual motion...which thermodynamics doesn't exactly allow.

But hey, if we can fuck with the very fabric of reality...

Who's to say we can't break a few rules, eh?

[vorlon13]

Unless tampering with the fabric of reality might upset the apple cart, EVERYWHERE and EVERYWHEN.

[JuliaL]

Remember ice nine.

[vorlon13]

And the supernova bomb from Krikkit . .

[One Above All]

...These guys have never seen Event Horizon, have they?

Still, great advance... if it works.

[ShaMan]

great advance... if it works.

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But... BUT! Wouldn't we be going backward rather than advancing?

[One Above All]

But... BUT! Wouldn't we be going backward rather than advancing?

Backward relative to what? :S

[Cyberman]

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.

[Welsh cake]

Quantum entanglement?

I don't think you can travel faster than something that is virtually instantaneous.

[vorlon13]

I do note that FTL is by implication not instantaneous.

I'm not sure the objections to violating relativity etc. etc. etc., would apply to a transportation scheme that was instantaneous.


Not that that helps actually do it.



I'll go fetch some Legos . . . . .