I don't think knowing the charge or mass of a distant particle will allow us to travel across time and space ;) I like the idea of warping space around a ship though.. contracting space in front and expanding it behind the ship could make the ship travel at incredible speeds.. but even that has issues to be worked out but theoretically, it's possible!
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:34 AM, denstar <valliants...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that Quantum Mechanics states that if we "will it" > hard enough (Ender's Game: Xenocide), we can do improbable things. > Perhaps even really really improbable things, like flip a spaceship > across the mind-paralyzing distances between the furthest stars. > > Case in point: > > The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by > simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson Brain > to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion > producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood - > and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by > making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap > simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of > Indeterminacy. > > Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for > this - partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly > because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties. > > Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they > encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the > infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the > mind-paralyzing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end > they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible. > > Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a > particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning this way: > > If, he thought to himself, such a machine is a /virtual/ > impossibility, then it must logically be a *finite* improbability. So > all I have to do in order to make one, is to work out exactly how > improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability > generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea ... and turn it on! > > He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed > to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability > generator out of thin air. > > It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic > Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynced by a rampaging > mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one > thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass. > > > They don't call it "spooky action at a distance" for nuth'n. > > :Den > > -- > Character is simply habit long continued. > Plutarch > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Greg Morphis wrote: > > > > Can't travel at the speed of light thanks to e=mc2. Because at the speed > of > > light your mass would be infinite. > > But there's nothing saying you can't travel at 99.999999% of it. > > Also space can expand faster than the speed of light. Making something > like > > a warp bubble possible. > ... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332389 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
