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).

The "Quantum Hyperdrive", IIRC; it also had the very narrative-friendly
effect of propagating an instantly detectable signature over about 1 LY,
which in a couple of stories was used for simple morse-style FTL message
transmission.

Jon (GZG)
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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:
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>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.
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>
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>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
>Head, Nematode Research Group
>Department of Zoology
>The Natural History Museum
>London SW7 5BD, UK.
>Tel +44 (0)20 7942 5032
>Fax +44 (0)20 7942 5433
>http://www.nhm.ac.uk/zoology/home/lambshead.htm
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>
>What a wonderful thing is the cat! on making it God said "That's that!
>Supurrnatural selection has brought us purrfection -
>which is a great relief to Me after My earlier mistake with the
nematode
>worm
>(Rowena Sommerville)
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