Posted on 06/20/2018 8:29:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Once you master zero-point, you certainly can.
Presumably it takes less effort to do that then to keep star hopping.
I think I saw that episode on Star Trek Continues.
Has been done really.
“Fleet of worlds” by Larry Niven
The Pierson’s Puppeteers moving through space to escape the explosion at the center of the galaxy. Essentially the same thing.
It's close. What it actually is, it's a senior scientist with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with WAAAAAAY too much time on his hands...................
.....and don’t call me Shirley..........that was my uncle’s name.................
I could spend the 100 billion years referred to in this article trying to think of an appropriate response, and I wouldn’t come close to one as good as yours.
As long as public funds are used to pay for BS “research” like this, we’ll get more of it.
> liberals would never go for us doing it <
The environment impact studies alone would take centuries.
In approximately 4 billion years, give or take a few hundred million or so, Sol will become a Red Giant, expanding out in size to the orbit of Mars, engulfing everything within that sphere in just a matter of days, burning it ALL to dust and ash................
I’ve always wondered, if the universe is expanding to where is it expanding? Doesn’t it require that the “space” all of the matter in the universe exists in be infinite?
Space is expanding..............
I am pretty sure that this is not the only thing this scientist is doing on the publics dime, and one never knows what value might come from theoretical research, but I have to admit this particular research product seems to fall into the “whatever” category.
Expanding to where? If you could go to the very edge of the universe what’s on the other side for it to expand into?
Some of which are indistinguishable from Science Fiction.
According to some cosmological theories, if you go outside this Universe, you either enter another universe or you are in a ‘nowhere’ situation, stuck forever ‘between universes’...............
I loved the Ringworld novels in my teens. Larry Niven spun great tales. Most of it was hard scifi. A Dyson Sphere? Where do you get enough matter? How do you get stuff to stick to it? You would have to spin it on an axis and end up with essentially a ring world within the sphere.
PS. I like geeky chicks. I married one. Hat tip.
Such an advanced civil would have figured no to tap the latent energy of expansion (the zero point field). Collecting stars would be unnecessary.
Only a ‘Q’ could move stars around.
Hmmm, could that be why expansion rate is increasing?
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