NW- OK I've been pondering the idea of Faster than light movement and this is what I've come up with.
Gravity waves are supposed to compress space time so I was thinking aren't things traveling through these ripples actually moving faster than light?
I mean light traveling through these ripples gets from point "A" to "B" faster than it would have if the ripple had not been there.
Or have I just had too much ripple?
J- The correct word is ripuli, you get that after consuming too much of the wrong stuff. ;-)
In my humble opinion, the area that we consider outer space contains enough ‘fundamental mass density’ to impede the motion of any mass that would reach the speed (or acceleration) of photons. Same as the density of water impedes the motion of a ship that we would want to move at the speed of sound.
On the other hand, if we could ‘remove’ the fundamental density from the front of the craft then there would be nothing preventing further acceleration of the craft. Same as if we could remove the water from the front of a ship (without causing reaction against the ship) we could push the ship to a higher speed.
The ripples that you are talking about are variations in the ‘fundamental mass density’ of the space in question. A space craft should be able to go faster in a lower ‘fundamental mass density of space’. Same as an airplane can move faster in a lower air density.
Cheers
Johannes
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