At 02:34 PM 12/10/98 -0500, Dan wrote:
Just weird engineering. The faster you go, the harder the crap you run
through, even if it's vanishingly thin by our standards. Using a Savage
e-m catapult [cf. THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT] several solar systems in length
(doable without weird engineering) and nano-sized AI craft, and another e-m
system to catch you (built in advance by slower machines), maybe you'd get
somewhere interesting before you were ablated. Otherwise I suspect we're
better off looking for weird physics loopholes.
>you
>can get anywhere in the universe in an arbitrarily short amount of time, as
>measured by the traveler. No weird physics is involved here
Damien Broderick