Good evening /sci/!
I am writing a science fiction novel, and I want to get the science at least plausible.
In the novel, there is a interstellar empire which has need for FTL communication.
I imagined their "FTL" to be not quite FTL, instead they would create a localized anti-Higgs field, which by decoupling the Higgsfield from the other four, restores symmetry for a time defined by the energy put into it. This would be how, when arriving at the destination, the anti-Higgs field would disengage, thus breaking symmetry and restoring mass to what was inside the field. From the perspective of the travellers, the outside world would slow down to a halt, and then suddenly speed up again as they arrive, since they would have no perception of the passing of time when massless and travelling at the speed of light. Does that make sense to /sci/entists?
Such an empire would have necessity of FTL communications though, as energy requirements to send complex messages over interstellar distances would make it prohibitively expensive to run an Empire.
But, then you of course run into the problem of causality violations, as with the famous tachyonic antitelephone. I thought in practical terms, a communications device opens up a wormhole too tiny to send people through, but OK for radio and microwaves.
I know most novels disregard causalityviolations in their FTL, but I'd love to make something that doesnt, well, violate causality, however tenuous the explanation might be.
Any ideas?
Pic semirelated as delayed choice quantum erasers are cool
I am writing a science fiction novel, and I want to get the science at least plausible.
In the novel, there is a interstellar empire which has need for FTL communication.
I imagined their "FTL" to be not quite FTL, instead they would create a localized anti-Higgs field, which by decoupling the Higgsfield from the other four, restores symmetry for a time defined by the energy put into it. This would be how, when arriving at the destination, the anti-Higgs field would disengage, thus breaking symmetry and restoring mass to what was inside the field. From the perspective of the travellers, the outside world would slow down to a halt, and then suddenly speed up again as they arrive, since they would have no perception of the passing of time when massless and travelling at the speed of light. Does that make sense to /sci/entists?
Such an empire would have necessity of FTL communications though, as energy requirements to send complex messages over interstellar distances would make it prohibitively expensive to run an Empire.
But, then you of course run into the problem of causality violations, as with the famous tachyonic antitelephone. I thought in practical terms, a communications device opens up a wormhole too tiny to send people through, but OK for radio and microwaves.
I know most novels disregard causalityviolations in their FTL, but I'd love to make something that doesnt, well, violate causality, however tenuous the explanation might be.
Any ideas?
Pic semirelated as delayed choice quantum erasers are cool
