From: ChuckKuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Date: Thu May 07 1998 - 06:00:33 MDT
At 11:15 5/7/98 +0200, you wrote:
>
>(see Lecture Notes on General Relativity by Sean M. Carrol,
>http://itp.ucsb.edu/~carrol/notes/ for a good introduction to GR and
>some discussion of these spacetimes)
>
I shall do some reading. Thanks!
>I don't think black holes are very useful for transport; they have
>emerged due to gravitational collapse, not because posthumans should
>get cheap travel. If we want wormholes, we better make them ourselves
>(my guess is that creating local inflation could be used to magnify
>ordinary quantum wormholes; the high energy quantum gravity
>engineering involved is left as an exercise for the student :-)
>
So all we need is to manipulate the Federal Reserve Board correctly, and we
get interstellar travel! At last a use for government..
The idea of a rotating BH I have seen in SF, but have not seen actual
theory. This might stretch my math skills more than a bit..
Chuck Kuecker
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