"If [Hugh McCormac] spoke to his wife at all, and not an electronic shadow show..." (p. 504)
Some of us have now seen those shadow shows: computer generated simulations of the appearances and voices of politicians or actors, deepfakes. Will all technology described in sf become real? Not if is theoretically impossible. Will faster than light and time travel remain theoretically impossible? I am fairly certain that, if any of these impossibilities do eventually happen, they will not happen as anyone has imagined them.
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Kaor, Paul!
There are some scientists, like Alcubierre, who think FTL might be at least theoretically possible. I would be delighted if a possibly workable theory and physics of FTL was soon published. Next would come the grindingly hard work of making it an engineering practicality.
We get an idea of what the earliest Technic FTL hyperdrive ships were like in "A Little Knowledge." The natives of Trillia had the theory of hyperdrive, but not the means needed for buying up to date FTL ships, so they did it the hard way, using long obsolete technology to build "primitive" hyperdrive ships.
Ad astra! Sean
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