Wormholes in Space

[Sindri]

Originally Posted by lwcamp

It is a prediction of quantum field theory, and all known examples of stuff with negative energy are always surrounded by nearby areas that overcompensate with positive energy. To get around it, you probably need negative energy stuff that is not quantum mechanical.

What does quantum mechanical mean in this context? Like casimir effect stuff instead of normal stuff only with negative mass?

Originally Posted by lwcamp

Physics doesn't really care how hard colonists have to work for their supplies.

I should hope not! That sentence was missing a bit.I meant to say that it was good anyway since it made colonists work for their supplies. I still find it weird that it doesn't operate like normal space in that way though.

It's nice because it slows down the extent to which a developed world can throw what for it is trivial energy at a new colony to speed up it's development to the speed at which the colony can get rocks.