Re:Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
by Evbn on Monday September 17, 2012 @07:36PM
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Is FTL the same as warping space? what happens in a (reduced dimensions for intuitiveness) scenario where a universe is like a line segment, and gets bent into crossing itself, allowing jumps from one point to another? Then there is a long way and a short way to send a message, kind of like travelling through vacuum is faster than traveling through water.
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Re:Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
by nessus42 on Monday September 17, 2012 @07:53PM
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FTL is not the same thing as warping space in the same way that speeding is not the same thing as driving a Maserati. But if you can warp space at your will to give you the power to effectively get from point A to point B faster than a beam of light would, then you will also be able to construct "closed time-like loops", which will allow you to travel backwards in time.