Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] will humans be replaced

[Jennifer Dozar <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Oooooo, is that like from Wrinkle in Time books?  :) where they jump to a
different deminsion???? :) i always thought that was cool. hehe. 


On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Aaron Littich wrote:

> 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	
> > > 		
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