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[–] 1 point 11 hours ago (3 children)

we also have warp travel the warhammer kind not the star trek kind.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    I have no idea about what warp speed warhammer style is, but the idea of traveling faster than light using warp speed is a fantasy that doesn't work even in theory, because you can't bend space faster than light either, because gravity too can't travel faster than light. So the idea of traveling faster than light because you are moving within a warped field can never work, because you can't move the warp field faster than light anyway.

    Never really got into the warhammer universe, I know it's HUGE, maybe some day I'll get around to it.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (1 child)

    There are actually several ways that faster than light travel would work mathematically. We just are nowhere near having the resources to test them.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 hours ago

    mathematically.

    You can describe a perfect circle very very easily mathematically, a circle with infinitely fine grained curvature. But such a circle cannot exist in reality, because quantum space prohibit it.

    I don't give a shit about mathematical descriptions of things that aren't real, math is insanely efficient at describing reality, but it would be equally efficient at describing ANY reality.

    Also there are no ways that math within the confines of the standard model can describe faster than light travel. Because in reality it's not just light, it is causality of everything that has a maximum speed of light. The idea of for instance tachyons moving backwards in time is only a hypothesis, not a scientific theory. There is nothing that shows that tachyons should exist. But many things that shows us they don't. Breaking down causality for one, and the same is the case with faster than light travel, it breaks causality, and makes the universe a Picasso universe without rules. And clearly we do not live in a Picasso universe, because there are indeed rules we can rely on for science to work.

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