DEV Community

Discussion on: What is your million dollar question?

 
kspeakman profile image
Kasey Speakman • Edited

I was going a little more mundane than that. For example local stars or other phenomena producing low-level energy fields (e.g. magnetic, electrical, something-undiscovered) that we could use for sub-light travel in a similar fashion to mag-lev trains. For example, the research on spacetime compression seems to fit about what I would expect (and also a temporal fabric). But I have my doubts about that specific theory.

Thread Thread
 
codemouse92 profile image
Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Honestly, I think we can agree. I think temporal fabric is the medium needed, but the technology necessary to act on it would require us to actually work/build/design in higher dimensions, which may not actually be possible for us to do. (If you think about it, you can only move in as many dimensions as you can directly perceive.)

But then again, we never thought we'd fly, so we shall see.

My thought is, for that to even be possible, we need to figure out how to create artificial gravity fields, as that is clearly a force acting within the temporal fabric.

Ahem Welcome to theoretical science according to dev.to!