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<blockquote data-quote="Nadaka" data-source="post: 3134562" data-attributes="member: 14651">Thats the thing. We are talking about hard sci-fi. The line that seperates hard sci-fi from soft sci-fi is just that. Hard sci-fi limits itself to what we know &quot;can&quot; be. Soft sci-fi takes liberties with that.No one can invent the impossible, there has to be some theoretical groundwork laid that allows the invention of application prior to its creation. However there are some things that really are impossible, like 1+1 = 3. The math is unquestionable, you can not accelerate past the speed of light if you do not have infinate energy. Your only other options are to bypass the distance or to find some way to increase speed without acceleration. Wormholes might let you do the first. But how do you create a wormhole or manipulate an existing one to sufficient length to cross a worthwhile distance? or of sufficient size to let anything bigger than subatomic particles through? or of sufficient duration to actually get something through? We don't have the framework to answer any of those questions. Neither for the option of increasing speed without acceleration. That is why such things are limited to soft sci-fi.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nadaka, post: 3134562, member: 14651"] Thats the thing. We are talking about hard sci-fi. The line that seperates hard sci-fi from soft sci-fi is just that. Hard sci-fi limits itself to what we know "can" be. Soft sci-fi takes liberties with that. No one can invent the impossible, there has to be some theoretical groundwork laid that allows the invention of application prior to its creation. However there are some things that really are impossible, like 1+1 = 3. The math is unquestionable, you can not accelerate past the speed of light if you do not have infinate energy. Your only other options are to bypass the distance or to find some way to increase speed without acceleration. Wormholes might let you do the first. But how do you create a wormhole or manipulate an existing one to sufficient length to cross a worthwhile distance? or of sufficient size to let anything bigger than subatomic particles through? or of sufficient duration to actually get something through? We don't have the framework to answer any of those questions. Neither for the option of increasing speed without acceleration. That is why such things are limited to soft sci-fi. [/QUOTE]

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