Timeline for What would be the least physics breaking way to travel at light speed or faster?
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| Jun 24, 2022 at 6:28 | comment | added | AmiralPatate | @MikeSerfas My point is more like it would be easier to write a historical drama if you don't mention local customs that aren't relevant to the story or that aren't setting the scene. Kinda like staging a play and going through the effort of making period-accurate underwear that nobody will ever see. | |
| Jun 24, 2022 at 1:37 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @Mike Serfas We go back in time every time we read about recorded history. The thing is what does 'being there' mean? If we have an exact detailed record of history, in every detail, and we can examine the past thoroughly, have we not gone back in time? The limitation on time travel is our ability to record the present for reference in the future. Basically, that is what Tipler cylinders to Feynman diagrams re all about. Remembering the past. | |
| Jun 23, 2022 at 21:12 | comment | added | Mike Serfas | @Charles - past causality is a religion, not a science. From Tipler cylinders to Feynman diagrams, science doesn't uphold it. Most human cultures traditionally did not believe in it either, for that matter. Meanwhile, as for "mystery engine", the philosophy there is much like the notion that it would be easier to write a historical drama in Elizabethan England if you don't mention local customs, costume or language. It would ... it truly would. I could write one myself. :) | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 6:01 | comment | added | AmiralPatate | @Charles I subscribe to the idea it's only a problem if you mention it. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 6:00 | comment | added | AmiralPatate | @BlueSkinandGlowingRedEyes What's important then is your capabilities and limitations make sense in the light of a hard scifi setting. It probably should be finnicky, it probably should take time, it probably should be quite expensive, etc | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 23:13 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | The infinite improbability drive. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 13:39 | comment | added | Charles | Hard/soft aside, I think the issue is that traveling faster than the speed of light causes problems (e.g., with causality) regardless of whether we understand the mechanism or not. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 13:02 | vote | accept | Blue Skin and Glowing Red Eyes | ||
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| Jun 21, 2022 at 13:02 | comment | added | Blue Skin and Glowing Red Eyes | The question is more for a ‘harder’ sci-fi setting, while your’s is for a ‘softer’ sci-fi setting. Still a clever answer though. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 9:07 | history | answered | AmiralPatate | CC BY-SA 4.0 |