Saturday, May 30, 2026

Warping

A post that argues that the idea of FTL travel has moved from "impossible" to "a horrifyingly complex engineering problem".

And that's what humans do. It might take centuries to get there, but if it's possible...

I don't read a lot of SF these days, but the only author I remember who was writing about Alcubierre drives is Marko Kloos.

1 comment:

  1. That was a great explanation of how theoretical becomes engineering.
    And why it happens.

    Eck!

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