Semi-OT: A General Tech Question Thread for me :)

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Hunpecked said:
In other words it's still sci fi, though with a possible but not solid theoretical basis.

Personally I doubt that wormholes, if they even exist, are usable for FTL travel, for the simple reason that no ET species has to our knowledge taken over the entire universe. Yeah, yeah, we could be alone, we could be in an interstellar "wildlife preserve," etc. But I get the distinct impression that our universe is just not very friendly to many of our cherished sci fi concepts.

There is nothing against wormholes, which is better than any other form of FTL travel. There is no physical evidence of them, but theoretically they are fairly solid as the conclusions/solutions to various Einstienian equations. If you can actually find them, if they go the right place and if you can even enter them are the questions and the answers will probably be No, No and Not a chance.

The big advantage of wormholes is that you don't actually travel faster than light. Yes you travel great distances in less time than you would, but you don't bugger around with causality and relativity while doing so. Not that there aren't seperate possible problems, but none in that league.

The universe is somewhat large, you do know this right? This is just one of several problems with your 'Nothing rules the entire universe, so there is no way to travel quickly.' That is possibly the worst argument against FTL travel I have ever, ever heard. So hopefully its a joke.