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Imagine how much ridicule would a SF author in the XX century will get for suggesting his characters "hearing" FTL ships arriving into their solar system.
by thriftwy 2y ago
Imagine how much ridicule would a SF author in the XX century will get for suggesting his characters "hearing" FTL ships arriving into their solar system.
- xg15 2y agoOnly if the characters take it for granted. That's one of the few situations where some good expospeak can make things better. If it's established the FTL travel is specifically audible in that universe because of some gravitational eardrum-wiggling snenanigans, it would just be a perfectly valid, probably quite interesting mechanic in that universe.
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- barfbagginus 2y agoIn the late 90s and early 00s you could totally have handwaved a hard SF scenario where gravitational waves from a Warp drive. Einstein calculated gravity Waves in 1911, and we saw the first evidence of them in the decay of a 1970s binary pulsar. Alcubierre published his warp spacetime in 94. So there would have been room for hard SF space opera authors to sell the idea, like Stephen Baxter, Peter F Hamilton, or Alastair Reynolds. Granted, it's amazing that now we can actually /simulate/ the sound of arriving warp ships! I imagine this will very quickly show up in short stories!