@18-Till-I-Die My 2-cents, Love the thread, and some brilliant ideas. I’ve tried to think about a Level 3 type civilization and realistic forms of time to develop and travel or spread out. Have a look at the COSMIC calendar, Universe played out over 12months to get scale. Then Galactic Size Civilizations when they started out. The earliest point in time, for the Milky-Way around June is the earliest life forms develop. Next speed and your FTL problem. The Milk-Way is 150k LY across, Andromeda 220k across and 2.5mil LY away. The LMC our neighbor is 14k LY across and only 158k LY away. This is our LOCAL GROUP. Even at the Speed of Light Galactic Empires will be few and not beyond their starting Galaxy. We start to find some limits with Age and light speed. Have a look at this YouTube below... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4yYHdDSWs I started to dig into FTL theories and Star Treks Warp speed seem to be the fastest moving SF ships speed wise. If you look at Warping like an Alcubierre Drive with a bubble, heat within becomes a real issue. It can’t escape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive However, putting this aside I looked at the Trekkie website FTL numbers and its still not fast enough. Take a look at the Video and weblink below with the race to just interstellar space. The Enterprise E Warp speed is around 9.985 or 5,829(c) is faster than the speed of light. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSyfpUyzQGU http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/treknology/warp6.htm http://www.convertalot.com/warp_factor_calculator.html Using the calculator, TNG, Warp=9.985, LY 150k and calculate... From Earth it’ll take an hour to get to Alpha Centauri which is brilliant. To cross the Milky-Way 8years and to reach the Andromeda Galaxy 115years. This is just our LOCAL GROUP. This at 6k c is a colossal speed. Alternate idea I had was using the 10 dimensions method with string theory. If a bridge to a younger Universe that hasn’t yet expanded (inflated) to our current Universes size that we drop in. Travel a distance 1LY in the new universe and then return to ours. The distance we will appear at could be 100LY away. We’ve navigated around the inflation of the Universe mixing FTL and String Theory... Just a thought... Norfolk nChance
Just to add, the Natural Normal Matter State in the Warp Bubble in our Universe would be an un-natural addition to the new younger-verse. So, would be classed as Anti-Matter maybe or Dark Matter and vice versa. Exhausted fuel spent on FTL travel would remain within the younger-verse as anti-matter pollutant. https://medium.com/@Ella_alderson/the-ten-dimensions-simplified-b261e54fc31c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory Travel 0.01% distance of the Younger-verse would reflect back into our realm of 0.01% giving the massive distance gain while travelling the same speed. This concept is different from Teleportation ideas like BSG uses or Wormhole ideas often used. It’s much closer to Hyperspace concepts but I think a deeper explanation of how it works using expanding Universes over time. N.
