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Muck Raker
Gutter Press
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Posted - 2014.11.07 20:49:12 -
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Gutter Press today spoke with a capsuleer explorer who claimed to have accidentally discovered a wormhole to the future !
Unprecedented !
The explorer said that they were engaging in routine wormhole exploration, when they found a wormhole of a type that seemed unlike any they'd encountered before !
The capsuleer said that spatial distortions from the wormhole caused their warp drive to malfunction while attempting to traverse the wormhole, which was a phenomena they had not encountered before.
The exit to the wormhole led to a system they'd never seen or heard of before !
"I'd never seen anything like it. According to all my instruments, I was in unknown space, in a completely uncharted system, and when my camera drones came back online, I saw something that I never thought possible! A station !"
Incredible !
No other space stations have ever been discovered in what some call "J-Space", so this mysterious station is without precedent !
"I stared at it for what seemed like an hour, when I saw that I had an incoming communication ! from myself !", said the capsuleer.
"I couldn't believe it at first, but my future self said that some strange interaction with the warp drive of my ship and the wormhole sent me into the future. Then they said I had to get back through the wormhole right away, because they didn't and they were stuck in that station for three months!"
Confusing !
"I immediately went back through the wormhole, and it collapsed behind me ! And I forgot to ask my future self what sporting events to place large bets on !" wailed the distraught pilot.
A Federal Intelligence Office agent known to Gutter Press had this to say: "A station in J-space, eh? well, let me tell you this. Booster abuse not only harms your health, but funds terrorist elements such as the Serpentis. Get it ? This meeting never happened, I was never here."
A University of Caille astrophysicist was sceptical of these claims: "Get out of my office and never darken my doorway again"
Other capsuleers familiar with wormholes also found the story of a wormhole to the future where stations exist in J-space, to be hard to believe:
"Stations in Anoikis ? I'll believe it when I see it", said one Gallente capsuleer. "Damn Jovians, I bet. Even when it was the Sleepers, I knew it was them !", said a Sebiestor explorer.
Gutter Press. The Future Is Now.
Rumours, Wars, Rumours of Wars, Wars of Rumours!
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Jaret Victorian
Crystalis Foundation
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Posted - 2014.11.07 20:54:23 -
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What a funny piece. I've not laughed like that in weeks! He must've had one of these parties with boosters and exotic dancers. |
Liam Antolliere
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.11.07 23:34:40 -
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Poppycock.
"Let it never be said that I have not been true to myself and, in so doing, true to those around me."
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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
1035
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Posted - 2014.11.08 00:01:02 -
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Gutter Press is at it again! Stations in Wormhole Space! If that would be true, everyone would have heard of that by now!
The Arek'Jaalan Project
The Masquerade Ball
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Mizhir
Mind Games. Suddenly Spaceships.
69320
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Posted - 2014.11.08 00:05:04 -
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Damn. I want to know where he gets his mindflood.
One Man Crew - Collective solo pvp
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Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
800
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Posted - 2014.11.08 03:19:29 -
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Time travel is a work of fiction.
Just like Gutter Press |
Andreus Ixiris
Duty. Circle-Of-Two
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Posted - 2014.11.08 08:36:27 -
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Actually, due to a quirk of the physics by which wormholes work, it is at least theoretically possible to perform time travel using them.
But it's highly unlikely.
Mane 614
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Xindi Kraid
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
802
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Posted - 2014.11.08 10:01:24 -
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I am not a physicist, but my understanding is that quantum forces would collapse any anomaly that would create a closed-timelike curve. |
Ria Nieyli
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Posted - 2014.11.08 14:34:39 -
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Xindi Kraid wrote:Time travel is a work of fiction.
Just like Gutter Press
Nonsense. We're travelling through time in this very moment! Granted, it's a very slow travel, and it only goes forwards, but still.
Mirrored eyes
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Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
257
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Posted - 2014.11.08 15:55:27 -
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Do Minmatar still exist in the future? |
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Shaera Taam
Khanid Prime Free Irregulars
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Posted - 2014.11.09 09:05:16 -
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/checks chronometer
Yup. Its the future. We're still here, Naupi.
Sleep well!
Thus Spake the Frigate Goddess!
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Andreus Ixiris
Duty. Circle-Of-Two
4821
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Posted - 2014.11.09 12:02:19 -
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Xindi Kraid wrote:I am not a physicist, but my understanding is that quantum forces would collapse any anomaly that would create a closed-timelike curve. You're in luck - I am a physicist. I even have a doctorate on the subject of phenomena related to quantum entanglement with the University of Caille now! (But don't worry, I'm not one of those people who insists on putting "Dr." in his title everywhere he goes.)
The truth of the matter is... complex, complicated by the fact that testing the various conflicting theories would by physically impractical, if not outright impossible. Firstly, you'd need a method of moving a wormhole, which is in and of itself an extremely complicated matter, since a wormhole isn't really a physical object in the sense that most people would understand the term. A wormhole is a topological defect in space. Imagine, if you will, that I were to take a coil pistol and blow a hole in a wall. Then, I ask you to try moving the hole without moving any part of the wall.
You perhaps begin to comprehend the difficulty of moving a wormhole.
In addition, the sort of wormhole that we're used to travelling through to get to Anoikis is a spectacularly poor candidate for this experiment, since not only are the ends are placed so far apart as to make convenient testing of phenomena impractical, but they're also already incredibly unstable, prone to natural collapse within the span of a few hours. Even if you did have the technology to move a wormhole (which, as I have probably given the impression, would be a marvel of scientific and engineering acumen) I have absoluetly no idea what would happen if you tried to move one of those ones.
Another problem is that it's actually really damned difficult to make a macroscopic physical object fly at relativistic speeds. It's so difficult, in fact, that all four major empires in the cluster - not to mention all the spacefaring empires preceeding them of which we have any historical evidence - have spent inestimable amounts of funding, manpower, resources and indeed lives on finding ways to avoid having to do it. Jumpgates, jump drives, warp drives, acceleration gates - all of these things have been built with the express purpose of never actually having to accelerate something to near light-speed. In fact, most of these devices have been built with the express purpose of circumventing the strange quirks of physics one encounters at near-luminal speeds.
As an object approaches light speed, its mass increases, and thus so too does the energy required to accelerate it further. To experience time dilation useful to the purposes of the experiment you'd have to get the ship up to and past 0.9c and probably far past that - something like 0.98c, off the top of my head. This means you're going to be expending an impossibly large amount of energy to get the ship there - and also, for a worthwhile experiment to take place, you'll also have to slow the damned thing down again, so you'll need to be able to expend the same amount of energy in reverse.
The amusing upshot of this entire affair is that assuming one could overcome these nigh-insurmountable practical hurdles, the answer to the experiment would naturally occur at the very moment you started it, since either the wormhole would immediately collapse due to the "Time Cop" postulate (i.e. quantum forces collapsing an attempted closed-timelike curve), or it wouldn't, and a future version of you would pop out of the wormhole.
Mane 614
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.11.09 22:06:01 -
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It isn't hard to get into future. Getting back is the problem. |
Quattras Peione
Stay Frosty. A Band Apart.
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Posted - 2014.11.10 07:05:02 -
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Diana Kim wrote:It isn't hard to get into future. Getting back is the problem. Indeed. Just wait and it arrives all on its own. |
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