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Anti-matter is not the key to travelling across this universe. Too much
Star Trek has distored people's ideas of space travel. Photon propellant
would be efficent if we had anti-matter, which is naturally abundant in
our universe. However, we have to make it, which requires a lot of effort
and energy.
The key to successful long distance travel is magnetics. Magnetic fields
could, one day, allow us to open up holes between two points in space and
simply jump between them. This topic can be found in many Sci-Fi books,
most notably _A Wrinkle in Time_. They called it a tesseract. "Event
Horizon" also discussed this topic.
Traveling in a straight line is inefficent and a horrific waste of
resources. We don't even know for sure if matter can go faster than the
speed of light. I'm not a physist, though.
Regards,
Neil Bradshaw
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