On 9/23/2020 4:29 PM, Alain Fournier wrote:
I'm not sure direction is relevant when you've exceeded the speed of
money.

Dave

The speed of money? Where does that fit in the light-speed,
ludicrous-speed and plaid-speed scale?

The speed of money is essentially somewhere between the speed of
imagination and the speed of realization.

As for using an Alcubierre drive, Serguei Krashnikov proposed a scheme
where only a few negative milligrams of exotic matter is needed to
transport small atoms at super-luminal speeds. The utility of
transporting small atoms like this would be more about transporting
information than about transporting the atoms themselves. So this brings
up the question: are atoms really the best option for transporting
information like this? Could an Alcubierre-Krashnikov drive be used to
transport photons faster than light? I don't think that the fact that
photons are massless is important here, the payload isn't accelerated at
all, it is the space around the payload which is warped. But if the
photon is a gamma ray, it is much smaller than an atom and volume does
seem to be severely restricted for such a drive. What would be the best
payload for such a drive?

Anything that fits inside the transporter beam? Essentially using
quantum mechanics and spooky action-at-a-distance to get around the
light speed hangup. I've always thought that if you can essentially
assemble something in zero elapsed time anywhere in the universe, that's
probably the best way to travel. The trick is getting the receivers
where you want them.

Dave