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Lynn McGuire wrote:
> quadibloc wrote:
>> I remember reading some time ago that a faster-than-light ship
>> designed using some derivative of the Alcubierre warp drive...
>> would devastate the distant solar system it was trying to visit
>> as soon as it tried to stop moving.
>> Ouch.
>> This recently suggested an idea to me.
>> What if beings in general, like us, are so desperate to achieve
>> FTL... that what almost always happens is that they end up blowing
>> up their home planet in their first attempt to launch an FTL
>> spaceship?
>> It might be that FTL is a bit trickier than we will realize when
>> the time comes.
>>
>> John Savard
>
> I like the Perry Rhodan, Red Thunder, and several other books solution.
>
> There is no such thing as FTL.  However, there is a means of translating
> yourself from one sets of universe coordinates to another set of
> universe coordinates instantaneously.

The wake of Perry Rhodan hyperspace drives shares similarities with the
Alcubierre warp drive.



Excerpt from DIE GEISTER VON GOL German original:

    Sendungen!

    Jemand saß in der Nähe des Berges, von dem der Orter
    vorhin behauptet hatte, sein Gipfel liege zwanzig
    Kilometer über Normalniveau, und sendete mit den
    gleichen Raumverzerrungseffekten, die bei der
    Transition eines Raumschiffes völlig ungewollt
    auftraten und sich bisher einer Beeinflussung durch
    den Menschen – man müsste ein neues Wort finden,
    überlegte Rhodan, man kann nicht alles Menschen
    nennen, was intelligent ist – erfolgreich entzogen
    hatten. Er sendete nicht nur, sondern er hatte den
    Effekt zuvor auch noch moduliert, wie das Muster
    auf dem Oszillographenschirm bewies.



Associated Ackerman Ace translation from THE GHOSTS OF GOL:

    Transmissions!

    Somebody was present in the neighbourhood of the
    mountain the peak of which, so the navigator claimed,
    was twelve miles above the normal level and was
    sending the same space-warping effects which occurred
    at the transition of a spaceship. They were unwanted
    side effects which could not be controlled by mankind.



An alternative to Neinstein's time-eaten cosmic speed limit:

    Superluminal Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields
    Generated in the Nearfield of Dipole Sources

    <https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0603240>

Danke,

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