HyperImmune t1_iufjxgz wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:01 PM

Any sufficiently advanced technology will be considered magic. I’d guess people from 200 years ago would consider a lot of our technology “magic”. Not saying FTL travel is imminent by any means, but who knows what the future truly holds.

dnimeerf t1_iufmrkq wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:22 PM

Read and reconsider that I am one of the inventors of this tech, and we are about 30- 50 years from public interstellar safe travel. If things go well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais Not magic

BaronCapdeville t1_iufjoit wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:59 PM

All sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

So, yes.

Edit: also, relevant user name.

starfyredragon t1_iufjs8q wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:00 PM

Magic not neccesarry.

Alcubierre drive concept has been refined to the point to where it's achievable with non-exotic forms of matter at semi-realistic energy requirements, and we've known thanks to the math behind super-strings that faster-than-light travel has always been technically possible, and may even happen naturally.

https://thedebrief.org/new-warp-drive-model-requires-no-exotic-matter-scientists-say-we-can-build-it/

zeezero t1_iuflnue wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:14 PM

That article says they are still limited to the speed of light.

starfyredragon t1_iugbx34 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:37 AM

Fair, I missed that part, I was more focused on it being an Alcubierre derivative that can actually work. Thanks for catching me on that.

Also, my disappointment is immeasurable.

dnimeerf t1_iufo4nl wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:32 PM

It doesn't include Mr Pais work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais

dnimeerf t1_iufnxwb wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:30 PM

I like the force that Tesla spoke of, "the cogwork of nature" so to speak, that which drives space, and all else with it along at a terrible pace. We may yet live to "see manmade horrors beyond our comprehension." Ftl happens naturally, which is part of the principle of operation of the system, which requires an advanced navigation and sensor system to make incremental changes in real time so not to turn the inhabitants into jelly. That system is already being worked on and is the subject of my white paper, and maxwell demon in the making. The software will mature into a navigational array meant for interstellar travel and communication. Our civilization is not yet responsible enough for transdimensional transteleportation.

dnimeerf t1_iufn7zk wrote on October 30, 2022 at 11:25 PM

Not at all It was difficult to achieve a near vacuum not many years ago. It was difficult for mankind to understand cavitation in a fluid volume, and still is. It is possible, however difficult, to draw even space from a given area. This seems incomprehensible, but with current understanding and technology, and the unification of civilization toward intergalactic society it is possible to do in just a few decades today what would have been said to be impossible just 10 short years ago. We live in an age of wonders friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais

Is it time to retire futurism?

[deleted] t1_iufgi6x wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:37 PM