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Old 22-May-2004, 02:17 PM
GOURDHEAD GOURDHEAD is offline
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Warp Drive is good TV, not good science.
Amen!! FTL is one of my more pleasant fantasies. But it is only a fantasy. However physically possible it may be found to be (I think it won't), navigation becomes a problem. Flitting through wormholes or warping spacetime could leave you in strange and uncomfortable locations in a somewhat unpredictable fashion. One such outcome could leave you stranded between galaxies with a scarcity of resources; another could leave you inside or uncomfortably near the surface of a star perhaps even one about to supernova. OK, so I'm chicken; Occam is still my friend.
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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?
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