tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 07 15:05:50 1994
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Re: Warp drives (the next wodge)
According to [email protected]:
>
> Thanks for all those constructive comments about Paragraph 3.
>
> [Paragraph 4] This time I'll try not to open a tin of gharghmey....
>
> Now Alcubierre has worked out a method of travelling equally fast but
> without exceeding the speed of light.
> DaH qech chu' chov Alcubierre - Do rap [lenglaHlu'] 'ach gho'Do lengnISlu'.
> - OK. I know [lenglaHlu'] is illegal (two Type 5 suffixes) - is there a way
> round this?
No, there isn't. You have to recast. Welcome to Qo'noS. Sleep
on the floor and get used to it.
I really think you are over your head on this project.
I'm having trouble with this one because I do not fully
understand the English. "Now Alcubierre has worked out a method
of travelling equally [equal to WHAT?] fast but without
exceeding the speed of light."
Does this mean that he can travel exactly at the speed of
light? If so, why bother with "but not exceeding..."? Is he
trying to say that he can get to a destination before light
travels the same distance without actually exceeding the speed
of light? I need better English text before I can come up with
meaningful Klingon text.
> Previously, this had been thought impossible.
> qechDaj QubchoHpa', qItbe'ghach Harlu'pu'.
> [Does qItbe'ghach work as 'an impossibility'?]
Even if it did, I don't think you want it here. Your sentence
says something like, "Before he began to think his idea, the
impossibility had been believed." or maybe "Before
he/she/it/they began to think his/her/its/their idea, one had
believed the impossibility." Try something more like:
qItbe' qechvam 'e' Harpu' Hoch.
> Space and time can be visualised as a rubber sheet that is stretched
> near massive objects.
> [??]
Okay. This is it. Somebody else needs to step in here because I
feel like I'm being assigned to a project that is interesting
to someone other than me.
Sorry, but I happen to have an uncontrollable belief system
that thinks this whole "space/time" bullshit is a massive
misunderstanding of Einstein's theories which were only partial
to begin with. Have you ever READ Relativity?
I've read it a couple times now and found it very interesting.
It was especially insightful in the area of defining reality in
terms of the perspective of the observer, proving that the
previous model of an objective reality independent of
perspective to be clearly and undeniably wrong. Meanwhile,
Einstein choked on the concept of gravity and came up with
little more than voodoo trying to explain it. That's where all
the weird "warped space/time" bullshit crept in and now
billions of dollars are spent on research to find the
"gravitons" that Einstein predicted, and guess what? THEY
AREN'T THERE!
And guess what else? You've heard of the Big Bang? IT NEVER
HAPPENED! Hey, Western Science. BUY A CLUE!
In case nobody ever noticed, Space/Time equates to MOTION.
Relativity is the mathematical structure by which matter is
defined as areas of space in motion relative to the observer.
There is no such thing as a point in space or a frozen instant
in time. These are human concepts. Without motion, neither time
nor space exists.
Okay, okay. I'll back up a couple steps. Western Science begins
with the idea of a timeless vacuum which is measured as
distance along three axes in three dimensional space. You can
find locations by measuring along these axes. Now add matter as
mathematical functions outlining areas in this otherwise empty
space. In other words, space is like a 3-D chart. To make the
math more complex, we add in mass to any enclosed area of
matter in this model. (Of course, without motion, mass is
meaningless, but let's not worry about this yet.)
Now add time. This is usually represented by a series of 3-D
graphs representing specific instants in time. Motion exists
only in the form of location differences between these
snapshots of reality.
That's the classical model. Forget it ever happened. Let's
start over MY way.
Begin with one monolythic block of matter. There is no vaccuum.
All areas of this mass are in extreme motion relative to any
nearby area. Think of it as a limitless cloud of infinite
turbulence. Relative motion exceeding the speed of light is not
only possible, it is the norm. Areas of mass moving less than
the speed of light relative to each other are as sparce as...
well, as sparce as what we call "atoms" separated by what we
call a "vaccuum".
Between these atoms are pathways (kind of like the Information
Superhighway, only matter instead of data -- [just kidding. Had
to work that in there]). These pathways are established
momentum systems that allow areas of mass to move past each
other without crashing into each other. A spinning ball of
turbulence tends to be held in a specific location by the
intricate weave of pathways surrounding it. Since the pathway
is full of stuff moving faster than light, it has the power of
infinite momentum preventing the "atom" from straying. It also
prevents the atom from becoming too large, since if its volume
swells to push its outer boundaries into the paths of infinite
momentum, then these forces will tear the "atom" apart,
shedding off smaller areas of turbulence at high speeds.
Welcome to Critical Mass. Thermonuclear reactions are
interference patterns among points of turbulence... etc.
Gravity is the result of constrictions on these pathways once
they pass through large masses. Since the pressure holding
atoms apart is lessened only on the side toward the center of
the mass (where the pathway has already been, and so has
slightly compressed in "thickness"), that is the direction this
pressure from every OTHER direction pushes the atoms. In other
words, gravity is not an attractive force. It is merely a
decreased general repulsive force in one direction. The
resultant force appears to be attractant.
You don't have to be Einstein to figure that out... Or rather,
you need to not be Einstein to figure that out, since he is
dead and didn't figure it out before checking out.
So, travel beyond the speed of light is quite possible. All you
have to do is manage to shift all your atoms slightly to the
left at the same time and "swish", your entire concept of
universe would change. All "matter", as you now know it, would
dissappear and something else would be there instead.
If you could then shift back to the right, you would pop back
into THIS universe, but, you would be very far away from where
you started. And, no, you would not have been moving in a
straight line. You would have been moving in a very large
eliptical arc, depending upon which momentum system (universe)
you chose to hitch a ride on.
Another way of looking at this is that if you moved in one
direction in a state of constant accelleration, as you
approached what your current perspective would call the speed
of light, the universe around you would appear to change. You
would no longer appear to be moving, and you would begin to
participate in a universe physically unrelated to your point of
origin. A universe, in this model, consists of a momentum
system populated by areas of turbulence moving at less than the
speed of light relative to each other.
And Black Holes? Well, these momentum systems (universes) that
pass through each other don't just move in straight lines
relative to each other. Like solar systems and galaxies, they
move in eliptical orbits through each other, sometimes sharing
axes, and sometimes with intersecting axes. At these points of
intersection, there are far fewer pathways, since the same
location exists in multiple momentum systems; that area is
moving less than the speed of light from the perspective of
more than one universe.
There, the forces placing a maximum allowable mass/volume for
an "atom" are decreased by factors, allowing far more massive
atoms to exist, and to pack far closer together, resulting in
far more restricted pathways going through, resulting in
enormous pressure differentials we would interpret as
gravitational force.
Meanwhile, we don't have to worry about one of these Black
Holes sucking us all back into a singularity. Their overall
diameter is limited by distance from the intersection point of
multiple universes. Just like heavy atoms break down when they
get too big, Black Holes have a Critical Mass on a far larger
scale. Just as stars sit there and burn, Black Holes sit there
in their own balance between dispersion and concentration.
I'm not a REAL scientist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm not
sure if I'm crazy or simply an unrecognized genius, or
something else entirely. I just know that I listen to people
and read things and think thoughts that are unconventional. The
physicists I've talked to were about evenly divided between
those who thought I was completely off my nut and those who
thought the ideas were both very interesting and containing
some ideas that are being batted around among people I'm not
even supposed to know about, since I'm not a scientist.
Whatever the case, I see this system that explains a Grand
Unification of particle physics and cosmology and I enjoy it a
lot. Normal life and these thoughts rarely intermingle, until I
have to deal with someone talking about the Big Bang or
Space/Time, or about how all the dinosaurs were reptillian...
It makes me feel like someone in Midieval times who knew damned
well that the Earth wasn't flat, but hey, who can argue with
science?
So, anyway, somebody else is going to have to translate the
rest of this.
I quit.
charghwI'