Don't stop me now! Superluminal travel in Einstein's universe

[Sam Wormley]

Don't stop me now! Superluminal travel in Einstein's universe

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-dont-superluminal-einstein-universe.html
The story of the drawn-out development of Albert Einstein's
revolutionary rewrite of the laws of gravity has been told many
times, but over the past 100 years it has given us extreme stars and
black holes, expanding universes and gravitational mirages. Einstein
also ensured you will never get lost, enabling the technology that
helps your phone find your location with pinpoint accuracy!
Despite this scientific bounty, relativity appears to place strict
limits on our exploration of Einstein's universe, with any rocketship
limited to travelling no faster than the speed of light. With the
distance between stars measured in light years, and the distance
across galaxies being hundreds of thousands of light years, not to
mention the complexities of time dilation, establishing and running a
galactic empire is going to be a drawn out and messy affair.
Bending time, bending space
I've already written that all is not lost, as in 1994 physicist
Miguel Alcubierre discovered something wonderful: that by bending
space and time just the right way will allow you to travel at any
speed you want! While there are some downsides, with such a warp
drive, the speed of light can be broken.
However, a couple of questions spring to mind, not least how can this
superluminal bubble of a warp drive be consistent with the rules of
relativity. And if it is, why did it take until the 1990s for someone
to notice this was the case.
After E = mc², the fact that nothing can move faster than light is
probably the most common fact known about Einstein's special theory
of relativity. So just what can superluminal motion actual mean?

[HVAC]

First of all, it's not Einstein's universe... It's MY universe.

Many authors have speculated on the regression of technology and culture in any large scale space empire. Isaac Asimov and Piers Anthony come to mind.

However Piers Anthony introduced the idea of sending your personality or aura(sp) instead of a craft. These would be sent into 'hosts' on the destination planet.

But why not just send a human mind or AI embedded in a craft? In this manner time would not be an issue.

But it's doubtful that any human would want to be involved in a project who's results would take tens of thousands of years to come to fruition.

[john]

A human mind wouldn't need a craft to
get here. Once here, it would assemble
it's craft and host body.
Read Delores Cannon.
Apparently, this part of the Universe is
so chaotic (nuclear explosion?), that
that's the only way in.

[benj]

Post by john
A human mind wouldn't need a craft to
get here. Once here, it would assemble
it's craft and host body.
Read Delores Cannon.
Apparently, this part of the Universe is
so chaotic (nuclear explosion?), that
that's the only way in.

This is called "remote viewing", John. HVAC COULD tell you more but it's
all classified now and he'd go to jail if he tried.
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[benj]

Post by HVAC
First of all, it's not Einstein's universe... It's MY universe.
Many authors have speculated on the regression of technology and culture in any large scale space empire. Isaac Asimov and Piers Anthony come to mind.
However Piers Anthony introduced the idea of sending your personality or aura(sp) instead of a craft. These would be sent into 'hosts' on the destination planet.
But why not just send a human mind or AI embedded in a craft? In this manner time would not be an issue.
But it's doubtful that any human would want to be involved in a project who's results would take tens of thousands of years to come to fruition.

Oh look! Today must be one of HVAC's "I'm Napoleon" days! Tell us how
you raped Josepine in the carriage (in your mind, natch).

HVAC is hoping that "he" will be the "AI" sent on the trip!

Remote viewing is FTL (but HVAC already knows this).
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