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Reflector
Jun28-04, 04:31 AM
Would this be possible - a spaceship detaches from the fabric or space-time sending a spherical ripple traveling at c which reforms at a diameter's distance bringing the space-ship back into being there. Because the ripple travels a longer distance than the space-ship, the spaceship would travel less than c so it wouldn't violate relativity.

selfAdjoint
Jun28-04, 08:43 AM
Basically a refinement of this idea is the Alcubierre space warp, one of a variety of suggestive but not yet practical "metric engineering" approaches within general relativity.

Nommos Prime (Dogon)
Jul6-04, 10:12 PM
Yes, I believe your idea to be possible.

Good luck proving it but!