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Originally Posted by Torwan
It is also possible that our understanding of Physics and how the universe works is so incomplete, that we are missing huge chunks of what there is to know.
I mean, people in the 19th century didn't know anything about Fission or Fusion and still their steam engines worked fine. So what if we know a lot about rockets, gravity and electronics, but are missing "hyperdrive physics" or "wormhole physics"? Not knowing that doesn't necessarily affect the stuff that we are constructing on our current basis of knowledge.
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Yes our understanding of Physics is incomplete, but I think if we are shooting for Hard Science Fiction, we need to stick with stuff that can be at least justified by the physics as we have them now.
Now when we get to other sorts of sci-fi, like space opera, then the rule of cool can be applied.
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Bill