AM> 632/107
 AM> GJO> the last word, more like an axiom.  'What is spacetime?'? What kind 
o
 AM> an
 GJO> explanation do you want?  People make the mistake of thinking that
 GJO>strange concepts must have a more fundamental explanation in terms of
 GJO>human concept based upon our past experience with nature.  Not so.
 AM> If we can't understand spacetime then we can't understand an UFO.
 AM> Since UFO cannot travel in the "regular" spacetime, they must
 AM> produce an artificial one. Otherwise, space travel beyond a solar
 AM> system would not be possible (huge accelerations, time dialation,
 AM> hitting a small particle at nearly the speed of light - BOM! no more
 AM> UFO). If one can produce an artificial spacetime field, farbric
 AM> or whatever you wan't to call it, one would not experience
 AM> time dialation nor any other principle discussed in general theory
 AM> - speed > c would be possible.
 AM> PS. Don't tell me that this isn't possible. I'm sure you would have
 AM> thought the same thing of teleportation about 20 yrs ago!
 What amuses me Adam, is that you introduce some extremely abstract idea 
without any scientific basis claiming which you claim is possible while 
claiming impossible travel beyond our solar system with current spacetime 
theories.  Firstly, if humans ever did go to the stars, under current 
physical limitations it would be a one way journey.  U.F.O.s would more 
likely represent short distance crafts used at the destination.  Now for the 
primary craft, where are not impossibilities.  'Huge accelerations' do not 
pose any problem...you can accelerate at 1g (and simulate earths gravity on 
your craft solving lots of potential physical complications) and accelerate 
up to the speed of light in around 1 year.  Time dilation can be a benefit 
and produces no problems on the one way trip...it can even be used to reduce 
the trip time. and finally collision between particles is not an impossible 
feat to overcome.  The density between the stars is about 1 atom per cubic 
metre or so, hardly an impossibility for construction design.
       Oh, thats teleportation of a single phot  , hardly star trek 
materials. 
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