30 Jun 02:38
--But you're right the idea sounds appealing
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30 Jun 02:37
--I think a lot of people would choose that curse over death if given the choice though
30 Jun 02:35
--Or maybe our brains just die and that's it, though of course nobody wants to think about that too long
30 Jun 02:35
--Probably a good idea to start with a clean slate if reincarnation is a thing
30 Jun 02:34
--We'll all be dead most likely long before you find out, so yeah get used to dem movies and holovids :)
30 Jun 02:34
--Maybe in twenty years we'll have a quantum theory of gravity, and it will prove stable wormholes can't exist. No amount of cleverness will make them then.
30 Jun 02:33
--I think it is something people forget–it's not how clever we are that will determine if we have wormhole gates, it will be if the universe works in a way that allows them to happen.
30 Jun 02:33
--But of course the universe has no compunction to work the way the model says it does.
30 Jun 02:32
--Definitely not pulled Entirely out of their ass....but mostly. We'll call it intuition haha
30 Jun 02:32
--But who knows? Maybe in a thousand years there WILL be an interconnected system of wormhole gates. Not likely, but I'm more than willing to read stories about it. XD
30 Jun 02:32
--Yeah, but with just a LITTLE more grounding than just saying "uhh, hyperspace drive". XD
30 Jun 02:31
--It is basically just making up models that might expand on existing models using criteria with no real evidence behind it...just pure math and a smattering of assumptions. Ie speculation. Actually a lot like string theory and M theory today. You could call those speculative fiction almost
30 Jun 02:31
--Thing is, though, physics does change. Nobody in the 19th century would have thought that we could get vast amounts of energy out of uranium (which they used to glaze pots!). And they thought they had it ALL figured out too.
30 Jun 02:29
--If it doesn't involve throwing something out of your spaceship (a rocket) or throwing something AT your spaceship (a photon sail etc.) it's all SF to me LOL
30 Jun 02:28
--I didn't mean "science book" like that, more a book of speculation that has some grounding in mathematical ideas
30 Jun 02:28
--No science book would have an interconnected network of interstellar distance gates though.. :)
30 Jun 02:28
--I definitely agree that the fiction bit is relevant, it IS science fiction after all
30 Jun 02:27
--I just can't find much details, maybe the idea is totally discredited now?