Re: OT: Handwavium-low methods of FTL travel?
Well, according to physicists, last I checked, if you had enough recources to throw at the project, and some way to make and store negative energy, you could make a wormhole from one point to another. It's just insane.
You need:
Two rings the size of Pluto's orbit (must be made of very tough stuff).
Negative energy roughly equivalent to twice the mass of jupiter.
Some way to spin those rings up to nearly the speed of light.
A way to get one of the rings to your destination.
Proceedure:
Charge each ring with negative energy roughly equivalent to the mass of jupiter.
Spin each ring up to nearly the speed of light (this is where the tuff stuff comes in handy).
Synchronize them - exactly - same shape, same size, same amount of negative energy, same spin, et cetera.
What you get, is a wormhole, approximately one meter in diameter, going from the center of one ring to the center of the other.
Yeah, um... I don't think I'll see that in my lifetime....
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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