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[hidden email], "Hemmings, R.K." <rkh@...> wrote:
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> paul foster wrote:
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> >I do find it very perplexing ., in regard the distance
> >involved in the prolonged flight of the aliens ., in order to
> >reach the Earth. How does this rather small craft manage to
> >get to us in seemingly a not too long time ....i.e. - not
> >hundreds of years.Also ., the nearest habitable planets are
> >light years away., and ., as far as i know ... they do not
> >originate inside our own solar system. Any ideas.
>
If Einstein is right (which he seems to be, but may not be - in the
same way that Newton seemed to be, but actually not); then there is a
universal speed limit imposed by physics, which is of course the speed
of light.
However, one laterally tantalizing possibility around this problem is
to realize that because time and space are actually "space-time", one
possible solution is to instead manipulate gravity in a localised but
directional way that bends _space_ to bring your destination closer
towards you! (Imagine scrunching a carpet to bring the two ends closer
together - the traversal distance from one end of the rug to the other
is now much shortened).
The net result is that it's *seems* to another, that you've traveled
faster than light because you've crossed so much distance so quickly.
But in reality, you've just traveled speedily over a 'short' distance.
Think about the Enterprise going into warp in the credits of STtNG,
how it looks 'stretched'? This is perhaps how the effect would look to
an external observer (maybe). The alien crafts in the UFO series then,
may be doing just that and our estimated speed of them violating our
laws of physics, a faux- effect of this.
Just a thought. :-)