New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

[Anders]

According to the equivalence principle, acceleration is identical to gravity.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Spin Gravity seems like it's a different subject than whether or not space can be warped. Could you explain the connection.

Is there supposed to be a connection? I don't recall him mentioning space being warped.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Is there supposed to be a connection? I don't recall him mentioning space being warped.

I posted a question and got ignored. This led to my mistaking another post as an answer.

[Anders]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

I posted a question and got ignored. This led to my mistaking another post as an answer.

And I thought by space being warped you meant gravity. My bad.

[Alden Loveshade]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Spin Gravity seems like it's a different subject than whether or not space can be warped. Could you explain the connection.

I believe Anders and David Johnson2 actually answered that question for me in following posts:

Originally Posted by Anders

According to the equivalence principle, acceleration is identical to gravity.

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Is there supposed to be a connection? I don't recall him mentioning space being warped.

EDIT: OK, it looks like the confusion was cleared up in the posts above, one made in the same minute I made this post.

[GURPS Fox]

Well, if you guys want, I can start a worldbuilding thread on a scifi/punk setting that I've been working on called 'A New World: A World of Conflict and Sorrow' here in the forums... it's still a work in progress though...

[DangerousThing]

Originally Posted by Anders

According to the equivalence principle, acceleration is identical to gravity.

More that at any point, acceleration and gravity cannot be experimentally distinguished from one another.

This seems to be a foundation point of general relativity. I don't know enough to even guess as to the latest theories that might or might not say something different.

When I was going to college, the joke about the physics department was that they used the same questions for the final tests each year. This was safe, because they changed the answers for each test.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

While reading the October 17-23, 2020 New Scientist I read an article that said they're making new dimensions in the lab. (How to build a Higher Dimension by Jon Cartwright).

These are small dimensions, but electrons are jumping through them and they want to use these dimensions to hook up circuits to each other. They suggest this will make quantum computers more workable.

If they're making new dimensions in the lab, what does that say about space warps? Does this mean the Alcubierre Drive is now hard science?

Since, as this article says, they are making new dimensions in the laboratory now in 2020, let's try this idea.

A highly talented grad student in 2025 decided to see if he could create a dimension she could put a molecule through. People had moved electrons through these artificial dimensions why not a molecule. She succeeded and got more ambitious. By 2030 she could move dust grain-sized objects through artificial dimensions. The race is on to create a functional teleporter.

The winner will have the greatest tool both for war and peacetime prosperity ever made.

Basically, a technothriller than can jump into being just about anything else you want.

[Vikingv]

Originally Posted by GURPS Fox

Well, if you guys want, I can start a worldbuilding thread on a scifi/punk setting that I've been working on called 'A New World: A World of Conflict and Sorrow' here in the forums... it's still a work in progress though...

Do it! That is what we live for (well. sort of)

[Astromancer]

Another take on the New Scientist article would be the building stargates. In a universe where physical objects can't move at light speed, or faster, making new dimensions to bypass vast amounts of space.

The catch is simply that space is simply part of timespace. If you don't know how to prevent time travel you can have catastrophes.