DeaconBlues wrote:
No warning, actually; the light from the explosion (their first clue) would reach them only a few moments before the explosion itself. No time to escape, even with superluminal drives - the only way to escape death by nova is not to be within a couple of lightyears of the nova to begin with.
thank you.
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As for the lightspeed limit, remember that it applies in Einsteinian space; postulate some method of achieving access to another space (while bringing along your own laws of physics for your ship, so everyone can stay alive), and you can go FTL in that continuum. (Star Trek brought up two methods of doing this - in James Blish's novel Spock Must Die! they used a trick involving Hibbert space, which has as many dimensions as you need to solve a particular problem, to beam Spock halfway across the quadrant by FTL transporter; in one Next Generation episode, they explained that the "subspace" the ship traveled through in warp drive was in fact one particular subspace domain of a larger superspace "sheaf", and that the "warpfield" is a way of dragging a little bit of their own space into subspace with them. This was also supposed to be why subspace radio works so much faster than ships; sending a message uses less energy than moving a massive object, so it's possible to access more energetic subspace domains with radio.)
hmm; related to that doen't Warp Drives simply compress space ahead of the ship and expand space behind it? I remember some NASA site saying that basically.
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"Wormholes" (Einstein-Rosen bridges) have two major flaws: 1) According to the theory that predicts them, they'd be one-way only, and 2) the input end is a black hole, and would shred anything approaching it down to its fundamental quarks on the way in. Tidal stresses are a b***h when you have a gravity well that steep.
would anti-gravity engines that are strong enough to keep a ship intact from accelerating from nearly static to fast enough to go halfway around the galaxy in hours? (say ships in Star Wars, at least small ships. I remember a Star Wars comic where the Millennium Falcon got a ship close enough to a black hole that the Star Destroyer broke apart, but the guy who posted that on his site (Star Wars Technical Commentaries written by an astrophysicist who analyzed Star Wars and did calcs) suggested the ship had too much power to other parts of the ship, like turbolasers I believe? Sorry if it doesn't make sense or constructed rightly.
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