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I always felt their reliance on wormholes being real a bit too much. It is too far on the "fiction" side of science fiction.
by _hypx 4y ago
I always felt their reliance on wormholes being real a bit too much. It is too far on the "fiction" side of science fiction.
- zetalyrae 4y agoYeah. I draw the line at magnetic monopoles, which are hypothetical (and it's not looking good for GUTs at the moment), but they are infinitely less bullshit than tachyons and such. Wormholes and reactionless propulsion are too much for me. It's a cute idea, but I don't believe wormholes exist outside homework problems for students of GR.
- _hypx 4y agoMagnetic monopoles are indeed speculative, but at least the theoretical foundations are pretty sound. Dirac predicted them after all, and they play nice with quantum mechanics. Wormholes and the like are where you get really wild problems like time-travel, which you have to arbitrarily prevent via more speculative physics.
- yencabulator 4y agoThe usual argument is that the goal is to write fiction, and you need some plot device to cause interactions, or the end result ends up too boring (for the kind of fiction desired). Consider trying to make a procedural cop show where each investigation takes 2+ months, and the trial takes place a year later.
- _hypx 4y agoThen just have hyperspace or whatever. If you’re going to break the laws of physics for plot purposes, you don’t have to justify it.