In this episode we talk about the different versions of FTL travel that will take part in the universe. I have already posted descriptions of the two main types that we talk about on the show. We also recap what we meant by what sci-fi is and what fantasy is.

We often rip apart things that we do not like in some shows like; Star Trek, Star Wars. Since we grew up with these shows, we like watching them but sometimes the inconsistencies just get to us. When we look at other shows/books and other media, we can see where they have gaps in the consistency. We would like to bridge that gap;  even now, Jim and I will be taking another visit on our FTL episode.

We will discuss possible concerns that we have come up with and try to refine these things. We would also like it if you would post any comments about your ideas, so that we can see what you think about our ideas, and maybe find something we missed.

Here are some things we talk about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_and_Star_Trek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

Let us know what you think.

In my last post, I laid down some info on the Human FTL travel.

Now for the aliens.

I see the aliens as having experimented with other forms of travel. I see them coming to a final result of wormhole travel, also know as folding space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole 

Basically it will be very simple for them, they can create a wormhole by focusing energy particles on a certain point of space, and this will then create a gravity point that will pull the other point of space to it. And all they have to do is traverse the tunnel to the other end that they have pulled to them.

Pro: Simple fast travel over short distance, requires very little of the engines.

Pro: Can create micro wormholes for instant communication to the other ships or places.

Con: to move large ships or fleets requires a lot of energy to create and maintain a stable wormhole while ships fly through.

Con: If wormhole destabilizes it will crush object in space-time itself.

These Posts are from the upcoming episode 3. In there we lay out more info on this, and talk about how they come up with these things. Also let us know what you think.

There are many forms of Space travel throughout books, movies and other media. A lot of them overlap, like subspace travel, usually because its an excepted form of transportation. Also like hyperspace or the more realistic approach of wormhole travel.

With the universe that we are creating, I wanted to there to be more than one type of Distance space traveling. Be it FTL or Folding Space or something else. The main ones that I will talk about are the Human form of FTL travel and the yet unnamed alien races wormhole traveling. I wanted them to have different types of travel, because they have evolved technologically separate, and the humans are a younger space farer.

First of all, the Humans FTL. (The Higgs Field) -Jim

The Higgs Boson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson. This basically give items mass, and with mass come interactivity with other particles. The idea behind the Higgs field is two parts.

1. The field is generated, which removes all Higgs particles from an object. This means that the object no longer has mass;  it is still held together because of the strong force, and the bonds between the particles are still there. Now the thing that makes this fiction is that the Higgs boson is theoretical, so coming up with the math to remove the Higgs particles is even more theoretical. What we have come up with is that since the Higgs boson is part of the Universal string theory, we have concluded that bouncing sound waves off a certain metal and said frequency removes this. Now we have a ship that has no mass/inertia and is ready for FTL travel.   "And with great acceleration comes great responsibility...." - Ben Parker

2. The next part is basically a mini-particle collider on the ship. It collides a certain particle together, and calculates and tracks the expelled particles from the other smaller dimensions. Check out LHC from the other post or Google it. Once it finds a particle going said velocity, the ship then attaches to it, and simply goes that velocity. Remember, with no mass you don’t have inertia, and therefore you wont get squished when there is great acceleration.

Pros: Since they do not have mass, they do not have to worry about objects in their way when traveling. It is very similar to neutrino particles, they don’t interact with things they come in contact with. This means the computer has to do very little calculations for traveling any distance.

Cons: Warm-up and cool-down. It takes time for the engines to make all the needed calculations for removing all Higgs particles: this depends on the size of the ship or object it will encompass. Also, the engines have to cool down once they have dropped the field. This will prevent them from "jumping" if they get in a pinch and they will have to rely on regular engines until the Higgs field is ready again.

Cons: Communication. Since they will be traveling faster than they could communicate to each other, this will make the captains of the ships more independent, but this could also cause problems. To compensate, they rely on a pony express of relay ships to bounce signals. These are ships that have very small crews and an engine. 

Next: Alien Wormhole Travel

In this Episode, I lay down some refrence points for you. Then we talk about the differnce between scifi and fantasy. Last we talk about some things that influence us as hosts.

We talk about:

TED

Larry Niven - http://www.larryniven.org/

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - http://youtube.com/watch?v=s9XotvwgnaY

These are just a few things that we talk about.

Well, it is now May 2nd, as per my last post we had some issue with the equipment. Since we were not able ot get the equipment on time. We were not able to record another episode. I hope to have a time line episode for you guys soon.