• Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Yeah, though this is difficult for anything with a significant mount of mass beyond that of a photon. The closest scientists and engineers etc have currently got to anything close to the possibility of going very very very fast is the Alcubierre drive. However, that’s still very speculative and probably nowhere close to being built.

    The most impressive tech ioo that they can come up with for space travel and exists at the moment is Ion thrusters.

    • silasmariner
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      Yeah so I guess I’d always imagined that the closest you can really get given the laws of physics to instant travel would be disintegration+information transfer+matter synthesis. But matter synthesis is probably ruled out by the amount of energy required to do anything, and the complexity of correct assembly. Still, fun to think about.