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Old 07-17-2010, 09:22 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
What you re describing isn't worm holes. And bending space enough for FTL would take a huuuuuuge amount of energy. A full Jupiter-mass of it. Not only energy, but "negative" energy, which is itself only a theory.
True, I shouldn't have been lazy about my terminology. Any topology distorting method of travel is always going to require huge amounts of energy. The point is that unlike with FTL there are no theoretical barriers to it.
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