A speculative technology might finally give us Faster Than Light (FTL) travel. The proof, if we only knew where to look, could have been ours by now.
If hypothetical aliens could tell you how they traveled to Earth, would you be surprised? Would the same physics we hold dear be close to their hearts too? No, not really. According to Relativity, we’re pretty much stuck here in the Solar system, and can’t leave in any meaningful way.
Hence this book isn’t about Relativity or Quantum Mechanics. If you’d like to learn about them, the bookshelves are crammed. What I want to show you is why we don’t need either one, and why would that be very useful to us. That’s the FTL Hypothesis and what this book is about.
From simulated reality to basketball games, and from Artificial Intelligence to pastry shops, analogies abound. Yes, analogies are incorrect by definition. Yet all popular science books use them, and there’s a reason for that. So enjoy them for what they are – a help to visualize the idea.
The physics paper with FTL equations is at the very end in the “FTL Hypothesis” chapter. No analogies are used there of course, but it’s still a quick read.
