Re: [FT] FTL Travel

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Samuel Penn wrote:
> >	So how do other people work FTL?
> 
> My favourite has always been the Traversable Wormhole, as exposed
> by Stephen Baxter quite a bit. They are two way, instantaneous travel,
> but the gates themselves can only move STL. They're also affected by
> relativistic time delation, allowing time travel between the two ends,
> but possibly in a limited sort of way (Baxter allowed time travel,
> physicists who are working on the theory tend to assume that
*something*
> will prevent anyone from breaking causality).
> 
> You end up with instantaneous travel between regions connected by
> wormholes, but slow expansion around the edges.

this is also (roughly) how it worked in buck rogers and lost in space
the
movie (when in doubt: play apollo 440!).

Tom