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Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Does anyone here ever question if there's a secret space program? Trillions of dollars of pentagon money just vanished. Whistle-blowers come forward. Patent suppression, TR-3B/Black manta sightings worldwide. But mainstream "science" and "tech", know nothing about it, right? Little bit strange. What's stranger is how wages and standard of living (minus a few tech devices) hasn't changed much in 30 years. Air travel i…

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Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Does anyone here ever question if there's a secret space program? Trillions of dollars of pentagon money just vanished. Whistle-blowers come forward. Patent suppression, TR-3B/Black manta sightings worldwide. But mainstream "science" and "tech", know nothing about it, right? Little bit strange. What's stranger is how wages and standard of living (minus a few tech devices) hasn't changed much in 30 years. Air travel i…

We would know. Either the secret space program requires enough exotic materials and science that you wouldn't be able to hide it OR it doesn't require that, so it's simple enough that any one of us could stumble upon it.

Trillions of dollars vanished because humans are probably more greedy than they are curious.

Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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I thought nothing could move faster than light?

Special Relativity states that no two objects may pass each other faster than the speed of light. Space itself isn't bound by this restriction. To wit: no thing can move faster than the speed of light, but space is not a thing. Space is dynamical. It can stretch and expand and even break, but it doesn't move . The result of this is a cosmological horizon that prevents these objects from communicating, because the dis…

>and even break

Spatial discontinuities? Can you tell us more, please?

Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Does anyone here ever question if there's a secret space program? Trillions of dollars of pentagon money just vanished. Whistle-blowers come forward. Patent suppression, TR-3B/Black manta sightings worldwide. But mainstream "science" and "tech", know nothing about it, right? Little bit strange. What's stranger is how wages and standard of living (minus a few tech devices) hasn't changed much in 30 years. Air travel i…

We would know. Either the secret space program requires enough exotic materials and science that you wouldn't be able to hide it OR it doesn't require that, so it's simple enough that any one of us could stumble upon it. Trillions of dollars vanished because humans are probably more greedy than they are curious.

governments can't keep secrets fallacy. they can. Manhattan.

these days, you can just take people's phones.

Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Does anyone here ever question if there's a secret space program? Trillions of dollars of pentagon money just vanished. Whistle-blowers come forward. Patent suppression, TR-3B/Black manta sightings worldwide. But mainstream "science" and "tech", know nothing about it, right? Little bit strange. What's stranger is how wages and standard of living (minus a few tech devices) hasn't changed much in 30 years. Air travel i…

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Does anyone here ever question if there's a secret space program? Trillions of dollars of pentagon money just vanished. Whistle-blowers come forward. Patent suppression, TR-3B/Black manta sightings worldwide. But mainstream "science" and "tech", know nothing about it, right? Little bit strange. What's stranger is how wages and standard of living (minus a few tech devices) hasn't changed much in 30 years. Air travel i…

A conspiracy that large would leak. This fact kills most conspiracy theories -- humans can't help but share cool shit.

Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Special Relativity states that no two objects may pass each other faster than the speed of light. Space itself isn't bound by this restriction. To wit: no thing can move faster than the speed of light, but space is not a thing. Space is dynamical. It can stretch and expand and even break, but it doesn't move . The result of this is a cosmological horizon that prevents these objects from communicating, because the dis…

>and even break Spatial discontinuities? Can you tell us more, please?

How about another lecture by Leonard Susskind? I'm just repeating his ideas! The gist of it is that the connectivity of space is related to the patterns of entanglement between particles in the quantum foam. If you were to break that entanglement, you could disconnect two regions of space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crggox5rbc

Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Based on the colloquia I watched by Lenny Susskind, the problem is that you can put something into a wormhole, but to get it out the other end, you have to carry the encoding you get to the other end of the wormhole to decode the output. Because the distance to the singularity grows at the speed of light, the length of the wormhole is essentially infinite. It is only the operator you get from putting the object into…

> Because the distance to the singularity grows at the speed of light, doesn't our universe expand at the same speed?

:D is the universe expanding, or revealing more of itself? if the universe is expanding at the speed of light, doesn't that imply that just light is reaching us more from further away places? sorry to be off topic but that comment gave me this brainfart.

Re: Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow

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Does anyone here ever question if there's a secret space program? Trillions of dollars of pentagon money just vanished. Whistle-blowers come forward. Patent suppression, TR-3B/Black manta sightings worldwide. But mainstream "science" and "tech", know nothing about it, right? Little bit strange. What's stranger is how wages and standard of living (minus a few tech devices) hasn't changed much in 30 years. Air travel i…

I'm 100% certain Stargate isn't a documentary.
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