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If light speed (not in a vacuum) was about human walking speed ...
Did any sci fi writer try that?
Did any sci fi writer try that?
You might find this (sadly) abandoned game demo interesting . . .If light speed (not in a vacuum) was about human walking speed ...
Did any sci fi writer try that?
If light was very slow I think it would effectively have mass and thus greatly enhanced momentum. Then rockets could work just by shining lasers or microwaves out the back for propulsion. At least for SF.Can’t think of any. Changing the speed of light would change so many other things that it is linked to. Greg Egan is a very good SF writer who goes heavily into the science of his books (and I mean heavy), he wrote a trilogy set in a universe where light has mass and explored the consequences of that:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9756310-the-clockwork-rocket
In the first chapter of "Mr Tompkins in Wonderland" George Gamow treats c as a a bit above bicycle speed.If light speed (not in a vacuum) was about human walking speed ...
Did any sci fi writer try that?
This is one of my favorite books from long ago. I highly recommend it if only for the entertainment of seeing how he presents a variety of concepts in an exagerated form.In the first chapter of "Mr Tompkins in Wonderland" George Gamow treats c as a a bit above bicycle speed.
Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith.
There's a singularity at the centre of the spherical ship, so time, light and gravity run differently on each onion-layered deck.
Didnt Dr Who have something similar in a recent episode?
If light speed (not in a vacuum) was about human walking speed ...
Did any sci fi writer try that?
As I interpret the OP, the question is about slowing the characteristic speed of spacetime, not the actual speed of light pulses. I do not believe the former has yet been achieved ;)I don't quite understand what is so exotic about this. After all, Lene Hau slowed down light to 17 mph in 1999, and our world didn't turn "sci-fi" (she and her group went all the way and slowed it down to a complete halt a few years later).
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As I interpret the OP, the question is about slowing the characteristic speed of spacetime, not the actual speed of light pulses. I do not believe the former has yet been achieved ;)
If light speed (not in a vacuum) was about human walking speed ...
Agreed, but as you say such a question is not really worth asking. Hence I attempted to read the OPs mind ;)The OP said (emphasis mine):