That's all it is about. Just feed the plebs with tales of time travel and "wormholes" to keep them away from knowledge. Meanwhile, we couldn't stay alive without a supeluminal causal interaction which the gravity is. And a local "absolute" ref sys can be constructed as proved by GPS; and there's no reason to believe it cannot be done for a system of arbitrary complexity, e.g. universally. One of the most horrible examples of outright lies about the speed of interactions is whatever we're taught of the Coulomb electric field, which actually is exactly as instantaneous as gravity and not "propagating at c" off the source. Just imagine the energy of virtual photon flux to carry the momentum exchanged in Coulomb interaction!
So we've spent about a century believing fast space travel is impossible or is only by unengineerable "wormholes", that's instead of trying to engineer sane approaches to the task. Somebody might've needed exactly that.
BTW, the same thing happened to the "free energy" concept. For ages we had a source of free energy lying around unattended. Every permanent magnet delivers a flux of first-order (force) field; connecting the poles with a magnetic conductor creates energy in that magnetic conductor (ferromagnetic core) proportionate to the flux squared and the length of the core; hence the longer the core - the more energy created for free!
But just imagine both the superluminal travel and free energy in the hands of everybody around! It doesn't take a terrorist to blow the world away, an idiot is quite sufficient for the task...
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A few square kilometer radiotelescopes were built back in the sixties-seventies. Arrays of the such are in use since the eighties...
That's all it is about. Just feed the plebs with tales of time travel and "wormholes" to keep them away from knowledge.
Meanwhile, we couldn't stay alive without a supeluminal causal interaction which the gravity is. And a local "absolute" ref sys can be constructed as proved by GPS; and there's no reason to believe it cannot be done for a system of arbitrary complexity, e.g. universally.
One of the most horrible examples of outright lies about the speed of interactions is whatever we're taught of the Coulomb electric field, which actually is exactly as instantaneous as gravity and not "propagating at c" off the source. Just imagine the energy of virtual photon flux to carry the momentum exchanged in Coulomb interaction!
So we've spent about a century believing fast space travel is impossible or is only by unengineerable "wormholes", that's instead of trying to engineer sane approaches to the task. Somebody might've needed exactly that.
BTW, the same thing happened to the "free energy" concept. For ages we had a source of free energy lying around unattended. Every permanent magnet delivers a flux of first-order (force) field; connecting the poles with a magnetic conductor creates energy in that magnetic conductor (ferromagnetic core) proportionate to the flux squared and the length of the core; hence the longer the core - the more energy created for free!
But just imagine both the superluminal travel and free energy in the hands of everybody around! It doesn't take a terrorist to blow the world away, an idiot is quite sufficient for the task...