Streetrip
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Posted - 2006.01.04 06:57:00 -
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Edited by: Streetrip on 04/01/2006 06:58:58
Well..The laws of physics are bendable.
Einstein- "Dude...you cant travel faster than the speed of light"
Wormholes- ..I.,
Its impossible to travel faster than the speed of light yet you can cross vast amounts of distances in space within seconds via use of a wormhole. Its not possible using that speed=distance/time triangle thing we learnt at school. Because considering the time it took you and the distance you covered...your speed is greater than speed of light.
The thing is, the laws of physics only apply in this universe as the laws of physics were created at the big bang. Before that, physicists dont know, neither do they care really since "physics" didn't even exist then.
So there you go FTL travel is acheivable. How warp drives work defeats me though. Probably something to do with creating a field which defies the laws of physics (which btw, is plausible). You just got to manipulate the universe.
FTL communication i believe is possible too without having to send a DVD at super speeds. Its actually been done already in real life here on Earth but only with REALLY small particles (electrons and the such) where a particle has been accelerated faster than the speed of light. Now all you need to do is skip a few milleniums, work out how to acheive a speed of speed of light about 50 fold with small particles, then all you need is one of those projectors. Bit of double sided tape minmatar style and have the emmiter, send out encoded particles (by then probably using quarks for this instead of our ancient electrons) at that FTL speed. Then set them at a code similar to binary :D Hey even morse code would work i think.
A receiver receives this pattern, unscrambles it. Voila, two way conference calling 
Now the only problem is alignment of your emmiter. the receiver can be a spherical object to work out which angle signal is coming in from (or 3 because triangulation is just cool). In the [whatever century we're in] the computers are probably far beyond anything we have so it'll be able to calculate the gravitational forces en route, adjust to compensate and then some really futuristic gyros can allign the path precisely while the ship itself is already travelling FTL hehe.
voila FTL communications.
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