Hyperspace
Kinds Of Hyperspace
For Love And Glory, XLVI (50 - 10 + 5 + 1 = 46).
A substantial rotating mass, like a star or planet, slightly drags on the inertial frame;
therefore, near such a mass, "...the function steepens..." (p. 257);
whereas, further away, there is a "...smooth potential-well dropoff..." (ibid.);
therefore, at astronomical distances, hyperjump and hyperwave become possible.
Two thousand kilometers above a Mars-sized planet 100 AUs from a giant star, Lissa's ship is too close for either hyperjump or -wave although "...a hard boost would quickly bring her to an escape point." (ibid.)
This chapter does not mention the space-time transits that are theoretically possible from close orbit around the even more substantial rotating mass of a T-machine as described in Poul Anderson's The Avatar.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It gets cumbersome using Roman numbers after XXXIX! Easy to see why Indian numbers supplanted Roman numbers for most purposes after the former spread to the West.
And I sure hope a hyperdrive or hyperjump becomes a REALITY in our real world!
Your mention of Dr. Tipler reminded me of how I'm too slowly reading his THE PHYSICS OF CHRISTIANITY. One of his ideas being that physics can prove the existence of God, sometimes called the Singularity.
Sean
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