Hyperlight Breakout in the Real Worlds?
Jan. 7th, 2006 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineA while back, I promised that I'd try to work up a list of web reference sites that might be of interest to anyone working up a space opera, be it comics or prose or movies or TV. I figure that this will be a good step in the process of delivering on that.
Recently, the question of getting around the light-speed barrier and getting humans to other star systems and back without aging slower than the people not on board your proposed starship has come up again in assorted publications. I first heard of it via an article on the Register, which pointed me to a New Scientist article on a new proposal for a so-called "hyperdrive". How much this builds on Miguel Alcubierre's stuff, and how much is independent of it, I don't really know yet, but it's got me curious.
And I'm not alone in this.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
james_nicoll has some of that curiosity, too. He's set up a posting on his journal here to set up what might be considered a "shopping list" for the world's space exploration services, should this particular line of inquiry pay off. And by "pay off", I mean "produce usable, interstellar-capable spacecraft that humans can use to go Out There and come back again". James has links on that page to a couple of sites that I believe will be of use to such writers:
Of course, all this depends on whether or not this line inquiry does pay off, and if it does, it may not be in my lifetime...
Recently, the question of getting around the light-speed barrier and getting humans to other star systems and back without aging slower than the people not on board your proposed starship has come up again in assorted publications. I first heard of it via an article on the Register, which pointed me to a New Scientist article on a new proposal for a so-called "hyperdrive". How much this builds on Miguel Alcubierre's stuff, and how much is independent of it, I don't really know yet, but it's got me curious.
And I'm not alone in this.
james_nicoll has some of that curiosity, too. He's set up a posting on his journal here to set up what might be considered a "shopping list" for the world's space exploration services, should this particular line of inquiry pay off. And by "pay off", I mean "produce usable, interstellar-capable spacecraft that humans can use to go Out There and come back again". James has links on that page to a couple of sites that I believe will be of use to such writers:Of course, all this depends on whether or not this line inquiry does pay off, and if it does, it may not be in my lifetime...
