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14 kwi 2012 · A driver of average competency begins to seriously increase the risk of crash when 20kph over the speed limit, as shown in this figure: If they made it lower, it probably wouldn't have been cool enough to take effect.
24 wrz 2018 · In this new series, I’ll be tackling a variety of popular and uncommon tropes in the science fiction genre. With this premier, one of the biggest tropes will be reviewed and analyzed: faster-than-light travel.
The main trouble I am having is with regard to units of measurement. For instance, describing the weight of something or the size of something, it just feels wrong to say meters or miles and so on, when those are units of historical significance to us here but have no place in a galaxy far far away.
27 sty 2021 · Rather than just having the vehicles fly faster, some science fiction suggested traveling through or outside of normal four-dimensional space (including time), either by jumping within ordinary space, utilizing hyperspace, or exploiting natural or artificial shortcuts through space.
29 lip 2016 · It means literally more energy than exists in the finite universe. This means that the speed of light is the absolute speed limit in our reality. Another consequence of FTL in terms of special relativity is that it can lead to the breakdown of cause-and-effect.
Physics tells us nothing can go faster than light. But with wormholes — shortcuts, basically — spacecraft could enter and exit at sub-light speeds. That makes them a perfect fit for any fictional...
3 lis 2017 · Kai Wiegandt examines how science fiction generates fascination through its treatment of time, and begins with the genre’s evocation of the sublime. Turning to the example of Poul Anderson’s Tau Zero (1970), he then discusses the relationship between...
