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05-29-2019, 04:35 PM | #11 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
How is it like Star Trek?
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05-29-2019, 07:04 PM | #12 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
Miniturized FtL engines.
FtL communications Cyberwarfare Nanotechnology Ways to block any of above Pilotless FtL ships Other Universes: Most scenarios involving FtL rationalize it by some sort of primitive bend in space time. It follows that this would tell any scientist that such things are actually possible and therefore it is possible to learn more about such. Biology of newly discovered planets. The Book of the Elders (Oh what the heck). Alien archeology
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06-01-2019, 03:09 PM | #13 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
Studying a creature that resides in hyperspace?
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06-01-2019, 05:55 PM | #14 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
Get eaten by a creature that resides in hyperspace?
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06-01-2019, 06:08 PM | #15 | |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
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They're a minority... but most of the "big things" in physics were debatable for decades. It's also worth noting that a recent theory says "nothing has ever entered a black hole" - because as they approach, local gravity slows local time to nil vs the reference frame including one or more stars. This also neatly avoids the information paradox; it's all frozen at the boundary. So, in an FTL allowed universe - one might be trying to devise an FTL probe to see the other side of the information horizon of a black hole, and checking to see if it's the same as the event horizon... |
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06-02-2019, 06:16 AM | #16 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
To quote Mark Millar's "Superman - Red Son":
"Jordan Luth-1938: Pioneering necronaut and first man to set foot in the afterlife"...
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06-02-2019, 01:07 PM | #17 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
What is information horizon?
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06-02-2019, 01:56 PM | #18 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
The point at which all information is lost to the outside frame; it is similar to, but not the same as, the event horizon.
Since gravity is a warping of spacetime, it's theoretically possible that the information horizon may be inside the event horizon; I've heard one physicist/professor state such, while another has claimed it to actually be just outside the event horizon, as redshifting sufficiently essentially erases information by making it unrecoverable; the photons too few and too weak to detect in the outside frame. Either way, it's the point where, without FTL, you cannot possibly actually know what's happening. |
06-02-2019, 06:36 PM | #19 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
How is it different than the event horizon?
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06-02-2019, 07:19 PM | #20 |
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
in subtle ways that I can't explain better than I already have.
There are several different horizons for supermassive objects... one of which is the point where no light escapes, another is the point where tidal force breaks solids, another yet where atoms dissociate from molecules due to tidal force.... and one theoretical one where no information can escape. Not all information is carried by photons. |
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