Breaking both in any major way would require or beget actual teleportation. (Which unlike electricity or moving in atmosphere has not been seen in nature.)
There does exist a series of absolute limits on Earth, such as capacity for growing food limited on sunlight, water and availability of specific minerals. Inserting more planets adds to that limit with a transportation losses... Unknown exactly but bottom floor is easy to figure out for spaceflight and mining (unless teleportation).
You can even limit maximum size of "life speed" cone around Earth which would be the maximum distance we can get things from during lifetime of any person. (Unless immortality or teleportation or high multiplier FTL.)
>Breaking both in any major way would require or beget actual teleportation. (Which unlike electricity or moving in atmosphere has not been seen in nature.)
Well maybe we haven't seen them because we didn't know how to look… recently declassified FLIR from US navy reporting archives suggest things that we haven't typically seen in nature in the past, can be seen.
>There does exist a series of absolute limits on Earth, such as capacity for growing food limited on sunlight, water and availability of specific minerals.
True, but what is the purpose of any of these things, and do we currently pursue the most efficient ways of doing such for those ends in a way that we cannot think about it anymore?
Once we figured out information-theoretic entropy we got tools to set bottom limits on everything. I'm not entirely sure when, but Kolmogorov was quite some time ago. The math is in good company of Shannon and Fischer.
Remember that reducing costs by not doing something has risks. Existential risks in fact. (E.g. reliance on a single source of energy without fallback.)
>Existential risks in fact. (E.g. reliance on a single source of energy without fallback.)
Existential risks for oil companies investors or CSP investors?
At some point though friction against road and minimum weight for safety and comfort come into play, and once you optimize these you end up with a train. :)
It's the same problem electronics face right now, when they really butt into quantum physics and consequently have huge yield issues - and you can scale horizontally (more transistors) only for subset of problems.