Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> > Poor fools. All you need to do is use your hyperdrive to circumnavigate the
> > universe, dropping out occasionally to take a photo, then return to earth in
> > time for a cup of tea before lunch.
>
>   Wouldn't this break the fundamental law that information cannot be
> transported between two points faster than c?

Oh, you're no fun. :-)

>   Even if "hyperdrive" would be based on warping space, would this
> warping happen faster than c? Wouldn't it break the fundamental principle?

Leaving aside popular notions of 'hyperdrive', which usually seems to involve
travel in some other domain with higher speed limits... I thought spacetime
wormholes were permitted by general relativity (provided you can find some
exotic matter)? Or is that an outdated idea these days?

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