The first Falkayn story, "The Three-Cornered Wheel," is introduced by someone called Vance Hall who claims to be commenting on the philosophy of Noah Arkwright. Hall summarizes some technological history:
uranium fission disproved the idea that it was impossible to release energy from atoms;
lasers disproved the idea that energy projectors/"ray guns" were impractical;
artificial positive and negative gravity fields disproved the idea that spacefarers must always be subject to acceleration pressure;
the quantum hyperjump disproved Einstein's light speed limit.
The apparent continuity from fission and lasers to gravity control and hyperjump makes this sequence seem very plausible.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And we actually know "Vance Hall" was right about nuclear energy. And I hope we will begin to see technological advances similar to the others he listed, esp. a FTL drive!
Ad astra! Sean
There are hints -- developments of the Alcubierre drive hypothesis -- that Einstein's own field equations leave open the possibilities of FTL.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I hope so much that is true! The really hard part would be making a FTL drive an engineering, nuts and bolts practicality. I think simply getting off Earth and into space in a real way would help enormously for such an effort.
Ad astra! Sean
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