Timeline for What would be the least physics breaking way to travel at light speed or faster?
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| Jun 23, 2022 at 4:09 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @Neinstein Quantum physics broke physics quite flagrantly. It also provides a perfectly legitimate work-around to 'physics'. Yet it answers questions that 'physics' can not even attempt to. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 18:51 | comment | added | user86462 | @Neinstein OK, thank you! That's a good summation of the objection. I don't agree but that's beside the point, there's a case to answer. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 12:57 | comment | added | Neinstein | @SeanOConnor My point is that if you work completely around physics, you are breaking physics (as our current, best model of our universe). Whatever you're hacking around with will act completely and utterly unphysical, by definition. If you mean that it will act perfectly "überphysical" in the "überword", that's totally irrelevant: überphysics can be literally anything as we have zero information about it. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 12:09 | comment | added | Logan R. Kearsley | @JustinThymetheSecond It's the coordinate along which your worldline progresses. And yes, it could be very different inside a wormhole than outside--so just build one where it isn't! It's like the Monty Python sketch with the abbatoir architect--yes, we could fill our apartment block with machinery of death, but how about we just... don't do that? | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 11:54 | comment | added | user86462 | @Neinstein I agree, so doesn't that constitute a perfectly non physics breaking way? I just don't understand why its excluded from being least physics breaking by working completely around physics. Non rhetorically: what are you getting at? | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 10:07 | comment | added | Neinstein | @SeanOConnor If we are in a simulation, our physics, a mathematical model of how the word behaves, will be the model of stuff within this simulation. The "überphysics" of the outside word can be literally anything and has no relevance to our physics. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 10:06 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @Logan R. Kearsley What exactly is 'time' in a wormhole? What is instantaneous to us could be ab eternity inn a wormhole. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 7:25 | comment | added | user86462 | @Neinstein I'd say the opposite, you've broken zero laws. If laws are the code of a computer program, all you've done is edit memory values. All other methods involve changes to code or undiscovered new bits of code. Furthermore, if God exists, then the laws of physics exist to further a higher law, namely his will, as does him moving you from A to B. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 3:58 | comment | added | Logan R. Kearsley | @JustinThymetheSecond The internal length of a wormhole is not constrained by external factors. You can construct wormhole solutions of GR that take arbitrarily long or short times to traverse. So if you're building them artificially, just build the ones that are instantaneous. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 23:12 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | There is no proof that traveling through a wormhole would be instantaneous. To preserve relativity, it is likely that it would take just as long to go through the wormhole as it would to travel in real time at c. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 7:06 | comment | added | Neinstein | I wouldn't say #2 is a least physics-breaking way, you just start to exist above literally any laws of physics. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 4:21 | history | answered | vsz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |