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Originally Posted by photon
We do, but we're still limited by the laws of the universe. Hard to say what the solution to the problem of interstellar space travel will look like, if the problem gets solved at all.
In a sense yes, but it's a specific way of looking at the equations which seem to accurately define our universe (General Relativity). But not all solutions and manipulations of those equations reflect what is observed in reality, so the fact that the equations allow for such a thing doesn't mean that that thing is in fact physically possible.
The equations also allow for time travel but it requires an infinitely long rod rotating at infinite speed 
In the end our equations are an attempt at describing reality.
Something like that, more along the lines of T@T's example of drilling through the mountain to create your own shortcut, but the end effect would be the same; being able to go from one place to another faster than light.
I don't think so, science is about finding answers to the weird questions. |
So what you are saying is that there are processes that are already possible whether we discover them or not. And discovering the equation simply provides a means to describe this process in a way we can comprehend. Meaning that you can make up an equation, but if there is no relative process that it describes it is simply just an equation?
As a Hydrologist I will use groundwater flow as an example to help me understand this. GWF has been around forever, its inception did not hinge on the creation of a formula, however, the creation of that formula was in itself a discovery since it allowed us a means to both understand and utilize this natural process. Without the formula the process exists, but our understanding was primitive.
So in essence, creating these formula's leads to the discovery of these processes, but not their creation? So when we do discover wormholes, if theory is correct, they would already exist and we would simply be using this equation as a means to understand them? Same with time travel? Wow.. so if I understand this correctly, I think I just blew my own mind.
Do I got it? Or did I just confuse you and myself?