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Quantum micro effects don't translate much to macro systems.
Yeah, like photos are gonna do whatever the fuck they want in entangled circumstances, they're weird little guys.
Putting, say, a 1/4 km ship with thousands of tons of mass into a wormhole is a different story.
You cannot accelerate that much mass to c, and you cannot open wormholes close enough to each other so it can eat out its own asshole (violating realism if you want to be boring about it I guess.)
For things that matter, c and realism are da law. There's no way around it.
Fully agree that if there's ever effectively FTL space travel it probably won't involve chucking ships through wormholes or accelerating them to c.
I wouldn't be shocked if someone came up with a theoretical basis for weird frame of effect/space bending BS or information teleportation + ridiculously detailed fabrication FTL. Also, while it's true quantum phenomenon don't percolate up to the macro scale that much on their own (anything that does isn't considered a phenomenon, just the way the world works) they do if you force them. 100 years ago maybe 10 people in the world knew what an entangled bell state was, now we're building super computers based on them with processing power of 2^n for every n bits which is likely to have an earthshattering effect on the everyday individual sometime within the next 20 years. I wouldn't say never with regards to some form of FTL exploiting a similarly weird effect noone really knows about yet.
Quantum micro effects don't translate much to macro systems.
Yeah, like photos are gonna do whatever the fuck they want in entangled circumstances, they're weird little guys.
Putting, say, a 1/4 km ship with thousands of tons of mass into a wormhole is a different story.
You cannot accelerate that much mass to c, and you cannot open wormholes close enough to each other so it can eat out its own asshole (violating realism if you want to be boring about it I guess.)
For things that matter, c and realism are da law. There's no way around it.
Fully agree that if there's ever effectively FTL space travel it probably won't involve chucking ships through wormholes or accelerating them to c.
I wouldn't be shocked if someone came up with a theoretical basis for weird frame of effect/space bending BS or information teleportation + ridiculously detailed fabrication FTL. Also, while it's true quantum phenomenon don't percolate up to the macro scale that much on their own (anything that does isn't considered a phenomenon, just the way the world works) they do if you force them. 100 years ago maybe 10 people in the world knew what an entangled bell state was, now we're building super computers based on them with processing power of 2^n for every n bits which is likely to have an earthshattering effect on the everyday individual sometime within the next 20 years. I wouldn't say never with regards to some form of FTL exploiting a similarly weird effect noone really knows about yet.