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Posted on: Intergaltic travel via cosmic strings
at 10/18/2009 3:07pm

I think your right harper, some kind of wormhole. Wish i had the brains to understand the mathmatics in it!!!

Posted on: Intergaltic travel via cosmic strings
at 10/13/2009 4:17am

Thanks Harper, Dont really understand that link either, if somebody could put that in laymens terms that would be good. ... more(+)

Thanks Harper, Dont really understand that link either, if somebody could put that in laymens terms that would be good. Not sure if it answered my question too. Wormholes were not mentioned when I originally heard about it Hewes. Maybe it is someother dimension. close(-)

Posted on: Intergaltic travel via cosmic strings
at 10/12/2009 12:38pm

Ok let me try to describe it different, looks like it is abit to complicated for Hewes to understand.
If you have a ... more(+)

Ok let me try to describe it different, looks like it is abit to complicated for Hewes to understand.
If you have a rubber mat that represents spacetime and you put a heavy mass in the middle, it would curve. This is also the way light would travel around the curvature. Now if you put a long ruler ontop of the mass this would represent the short cut that a theoretical spaceship could take, while a light ray would have to take the longer route around spacetime. What I am trying to get at is if the light ray has to travel around the spacetime path, what would the ship be travelling through because it wouldnt be the spacetime fabric. close(-)

Posted on: Intergaltic travel via cosmic strings
at 10/11/2009 2:20pm

Gravity (mass) warps spacetime and so changes the way particles move through it...I was watching a program about cosmic ... more(+)

Gravity (mass) warps spacetime and so changes the way particles move through it...I was watching a program about cosmic strings and how if two super long cosmic strings (reminisence and created from the big bang) where parallel to each other in space they would warp gravity so much (maybe as much as a black hole) that a theoretical spaceship could cut right across the spacetime fabric (and end up on the other side of the universe, while light rays would still go via the spacetime fabric path.. It is hard to explain without having a diagram to show, but my question is what exactly would you be travelling through (or cutting through) because it wouldnt be spacetime because that is being warpped?? close(-)

Posted on: Alan Guth vs Joao Maguelijo
at 09/17/2009 4:47pm

Thanks guys!!! thats cleared that up... and sorry Joao if your reading for calling you a rip off...

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