Space Travel Theory

so i was playing mass effect where the idea behind FTL travel (faster then light) is magic 'element 0' that can be used to reduce mass thus taking less energy to bla bla bla.

the immediate problem i spotted is the the reason you cant go faster then the speed of light is that even a pea starts to weigh millions of tonnes once you really get going. thus just reducing mass won't do shit. in my thinking i accidentally came up with this.

a method of acceleration that would cause no increase of mass. as going faster and faster causes an exponential increase of required energy to go faster. finally hitting infinity somewhere at or past the speed of light. if you could have a linear acceleration then the problem is solved. for remarkably little energy you could break the speed of light and go several times faster again with no issues cept maybe hitting something in deep space.

I'm not pretending it's possible or that the technology to do it exists but it dose solve the most basic problems of space travel.


any thoughts?

a marvelous new way to do something will not be uncovered unless the thinker in question is able to 'pull in' countless "useless" bits of information and rearrange them in a brand new matter.

unfortunately for the bulk of homo sapiens, those people capable of performing such feats don't come along (in history) very often.

this may seem contrary to an answer but in fact, it is the key to all the problems plaguing mankind at this juncture in time.

of late, stupidity is held on high as it's own reward and people have taken the bait. our evolution, by simple observation, has made cohesive thought the avenue to our success as a species (over all other earthbound species). when we slough thinking in favor of physical prowess then we are running counter to the ONLY evolutionary reason we have succeeded as a race.

no, it's not a direct answer to you question. yes, it is THE answer to your question.

besides, the method for instantaneous transportation between two disparate points, regardless of 'distance', already exists.

and i'm not tellin'.

      lim        f(x)=g(x) nope don't think so tim.
x→speed of light

Shadows move faster than light. However you can't send any information through them, so they're useless.

You don't need to travel faster than light to traverse the universe.

Simply travel through a higher dimension and you will be able to go anywhere in the universe instantly

I recall reading something that was trying to explain an FTL problem using communication across massive distances with near-instantaneous travel.  Something about subjective, I thjink; what event happened first?  For the life of me, I can't remember what was so paradoxical.

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>the method for instantaneous transportation between two disparate points, regardless of 'distance', already exists.

I hope you're not implying that quantum teleportation is instantaneous.

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Ah, the thought experiment is called the tachyon antitelephone.  Still bugs the heck out of me since, if you can build the telephone, there's no reason not to think you don't have at least even a bit of the phlebotinous sophistication needed to create synchronization between the two ends of it.

Step 1. Create massive cold object that pulls time frame backwards.
Step 2. Create super light energetic object that pushes time forward.
Step 3. Swing and collide them to suck the forward frame to the past, and the swing would keep the effect going by winding.