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> On a side note, I like how The Expanse sidesteps the scientific issues of interstellar travel with alien magic. I thought the "alien magic" behind the gates
by avaldeso 6y ago
> On a side note, I like how The Expanse sidesteps the scientific issues of interstellar travel with alien magic.
I thought the "alien magic" behind the gates technology was the same old K. Thorne wormholes.
> On yet another note, I read an unsettling sci-fi/theory about how the expansion of space is perhaps being caused by whatever tech allows interstellar travel in lightspeed-like time. So whatever intelligent species that evolved first may have a monopoly on such tech, while inadvertently altering the fabric of physics to make interstellar travel gradually impossible for any younger species.
Do you have a link to read more about that? Reminds me of the FTL technology in the books "The Dark Forest" and "Death's End" by Liu Cixin.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoSince you mention The Dark Forest trilogy, it had some other dire implications along this lines. Spoiler: Bar glcr bs nqinaprq beqanapr orvat hfrq va vagrefgryyne jnef jnf n qvzrafvbanyvgl erqhpgvba jrncba. Bapr npgvingrq, vg cebprrqrq gb erzbir bar qvzrafvba sebz gur fheebhaqvat fcnpr. Gur rssrpg rkcnaqrq ng gur fcrrq bs yvtug naq arire fgbccrq, fb vg hygvzngryl - va ovyyvbaf bs lrnef - jbhyq qrfgebl gur ragver bofreinoyr havirefr. Gur obbx erirnyf gung gur irel ernfba bhe havirefr vf n guerr-qvzrafvbany bar, vafgrnq bs sbhe be gjryir be jungabg, vf orpnhfr bs guvf jrncba qrcyblrq va cnfg vagrefgryyne jnef.
- Razengan 6y agoI think it was indeed from those books.