FTL in SciFi was RE:

Quoting "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil>:

> 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).

That's how Vernor Vinge did it as well, with the modification that
computing 
the jumps requires a lot of processing power and the upper limit of
machine 
intelligence depends on local star density - so AI and therefore FTL
travel is 
not possible in the "slowness", whereas God-like super-sentient "powers"
formed 
when whole species "transcend" live outside the galaxy proper...

"A Fire Upon the Deep" is really, really good. Recommend that one.

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