I have been in contact with the archivist for TDR. I have agreed to handle all
software submissions. Send your sourcecode to me at [email removed] --
ASCII sourcecode only, please, no uuencoded binaries. I am interested in
software for system generation, character generation, starship design, etc.
About neutrinos: Yeah, so we detected neutrinos from a distant supernova. But
think about how much energy that supernova generated. It goes without saying
that even though a supernova is distant, it also puts out a lot more neutrinos
in a few seconds than most starts put out in many, many years.
As I recall, the neutrino detectors in Traveller are there for detecting enemy
ships in combat, the idea being that you can home in on the fusion plant of the
enemy ship which is bound to produce neutrinos.
It seems to me that these neutrino detectors are probably going to be sensitive
to the flavor of the neutrino, i.e., whether it is a mu-neutrino or an electron
neutrino, and will either react or not depending. With flavor mixing falling
out of theoretical quantum mechanics, we could be seeing a significant decrease
in detection at distances on the order of 1 AU.
About FTL: I've heard the argument before that "if it ain't in this universe,
we can't know what laws apply to it." The SR reverse time travel result falls
out of the discontinuity which permits superluminal propagation. I am pretty
sure of my sources. Apparently, the method has nothing to do with it, it's
strictly the fact that there is a propagation from point A to point B faster
than a photon could do it that gives the time travel result.
Note I am not talking about wormholes, which are weird animals. But it is also
a "known fact" that causality can be violated inside wormholes. So, the only
question I have is, who wants to get the electrons stripped of his atoms first?
:-)
Robert P. Poole [email removed]
[address removed] MIT Course VIII
311B Bexley Hall "We make Idols of our concepts, but
[address removed] wisdom is born of wonder."
-- St. Gregory the Illuminator