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In at least one of his stories the conjoiner engines were similar to highly advanced ramscoops, but he seems to have discarded the scoop part in later novels.
by mr_toad 8y ago
In at least one of his stories the conjoiner engines were similar to highly advanced ramscoops, but he seems to have discarded the scoop part in later novels.
- rsynnott 8y agoYeah; in the novels they just work by magic (even in-universe, more or less). There is a ramscoop in The Prefect, though; it suffers from the practical issues mentioned in the article and is not considered useful.
- taneq 8y agoIirc they're explained as wormholes opening into a very early stage of the universe where heat/pressure/radiation are immense.