RE:

In the Polesoltechnic League stories his ships "jumped" in a manner
similar
to how electrons "jumped" from one electron shell to another (changed
location without traveling the distance in-between). It was done
millions
(billions?) of times a second. The net effect was that the ships
translocated faster than the speed of light without doing any actual
movement (movement requires traveling the distance between point A and
point
B, not just appearing at point B when you were at point A).

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Brian Bell 
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Lambshead [mailto:pjdl@nhm.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 05:00
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 

Poul Anderson also used an FTL drive that converted a ship into an
'arificial tachyon' for his Star Trader stories back in the 70s (60s?)

J.

I do remember being horribly disappointed in high school because I had
just read a science article by Asimov talking about Tachyons and I
decided
that I was going to use that as the mechanic for FTL in my science
fiction
universe, and then a little bit later I read through FASA's Interceptor
and saw that they were already using it.  I had thought that I was going
to be SO original.

Randy Wolfmeyer
Dept. of Physics
Washington University

Dr PJD Lambshead
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