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Posted: 2007-09-29 01:40am
by Illuminatus Primus
Hyperdrive is FTL information transfer and is not dynamological in nature - it is purely physical. Hyperdrives and hyperwaves and subspace transceivers can send FTL without violating causality. So relativity does not absolutely hold. Whether or not causality is violated by another process altogether has nothing to do with the isolated, FTL, non-causality-violating, physical nature of hyperdrive and hyperwaves. The Force has nothing to do with that.
Simply put, if you have any means to physically transmit FTL and also not violate causality, you are breaking relativity.
Posted: 2007-09-30 09:35pm
by Ender
Illuminatus Primus wrote:Hyperdrive is FTL information transfer and is not dynamological in nature - it is purely physical. Hyperdrives and hyperwaves and subspace transceivers can send FTL without violating causality. So relativity does not absolutely hold. Whether or not causality is violated by another process altogether has nothing to do with the isolated, FTL, non-causality-violating, physical nature of hyperdrive and hyperwaves. The Force has nothing to do with that.
Simply put, if you have any means to physically transmit FTL and also not violate causality, you are breaking relativity.
*shrug*
1) We know relativity holds at extreme velocities (exhaust from drives) and that time dilation holds as well (stasis fields, etc)
2) We know casualty can be violated in some scenarios
3) We have the statement in Infernio that the Force prevents people from violating casualty.
I'd say consider it an exercise for the reader to figure out how this can all work together. I'd also say you just volunteered your brain for the task.
