Intergalactic Summit

What a funny piece. I've not laughed like that in weeks! He must've had one of these parties with boosters and exotic dancers.

Gutter Press is at it again! Stations in Wormhole Space! If that would be true, everyone would have heard of that by now!

Time travel is a work of fiction.


Just like Gutter Press

I am not a physicist, but my understanding is that quantum forces would collapse any anomaly that would create a closed-timelike curve.

Do Minmatar still exist in the future?

You're in luck - I am a physicist. I even have a doctorate on the subject of phenomena related to quantum entanglement with the University of Caille now! (But don't worry, I'm not one of those people who insists on putting "Dr." in his title everywhere he goes.)

The truth of the matter is... complex, complicated by the fact that testing the various conflicting theories would by physically impractical, if not outright impossible. Firstly, you'd need a method of moving a wormhole, which is in and of itself an extremely complicated matter, since a wormhole isn't really a physical object in the sense that most people would understand the term. A wormhole is a topological defect in space. Imagine, if you will, that I were to take a coil pistol and blow a hole in a wall. Then, I ask you to try moving the hole without moving any part of the wall.

You perhaps begin to comprehend the difficulty of moving a wormhole.

In addition, the sort of wormhole that we're used to travelling through to get to Anoikis is a spectacularly poor candidate for this experiment, since not only are the ends are placed so far apart as to make convenient testing of phenomena impractical, but they're also already incredibly unstable, prone to natural collapse within the span of a few hours. Even if you did have the technology to move a wormhole (which, as I have probably given the impression, would be a marvel of scientific and engineering acumen) I have absoluetly no idea what would happen if you tried to move one of those ones.

Another problem is that it's actually really damned difficult to make a macroscopic physical object fly at relativistic speeds. It's so difficult, in fact, that all four major empires in the cluster - not to mention all the spacefaring empires preceeding them of which we have any historical evidence - have spent inestimable amounts of funding, manpower, resources and indeed lives on finding ways to avoid having to do it. Jumpgates, jump drives, warp drives, acceleration gates - all of these things have been built with the express purpose of never actually having to accelerate something to near light-speed. In fact, most of these devices have been built with the express purpose of circumventing the strange quirks of physics one encounters at near-luminal speeds.

As an object approaches light speed, its mass increases, and thus so too does the energy required to accelerate it further. To experience time dilation useful to the purposes of the experiment you'd have to get the ship up to and past 0.9c and probably far past that - something like 0.98c, off the top of my head. This means you're going to be expending an impossibly large amount of energy to get the ship there - and also, for a worthwhile experiment to take place, you'll also have to slow the damned thing down again, so you'll need to be able to expend the same amount of energy in reverse.

The amusing upshot of this entire affair is that assuming one could overcome these nigh-insurmountable practical hurdles, the answer to the experiment would naturally occur at the very moment you started it, since either the wormhole would immediately collapse due to the "Time Cop" postulate (i.e. quantum forces collapsing an attempted closed-timelike curve), or it wouldn't, and a future version of you would pop out of the wormhole.

Indeed. Just wait and it arrives all on its own.