Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] will humans be replaced

[Aaron Littich <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Tesseracts can't be formed by the electromagnetic
force because that is a weak force that only acts on
short distances.  Gravity is even weaker but it does
act over long distances (I think infinity).  The only
way to form these tesseracts is by severe warping of
space/time, which would mean either extreme amounts of
matter and/or energy, which we don't have a means to
produce.  You are talking about energies that even our
Sun can't produce. 


--- John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> ah, ok, well, i went by 
> what discovery channel talked about
> 
> it talked about using Anti-Matter to 
> help push us faster
> 
> I don't remember hearing anything on 
> Photon propellant
> 
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Neil Bradshaw wrote:
> 
> > 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	
> > 		
> > EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > http://web.missouri.edu/~npba45/
> > 
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