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On Sat, 29 Mar 1997 16:15:11 GMT, ykhan@achilles.net (Yousuf Khan)
wrote:

>
>>>Personally, I like being matter, I think you like being matter too. I
>>>imagine it's the best state of energy to be in. I think it would suck being
>>>a photon. :-)
>
>>Since you'd be at lightspeed no time would pass for it to suck in.
>
>That's what I mean, no time would pass. We'd never know what the hell is
>going on, nor would we be in control. Something could come along and
>randomly push away, or destroy us, and we'd never know about it.
>

Suppose you could somehow exclude Higgs from some kind of conduit,
beam etc.. You convert to massless particles and zoom along the
conduit to the other end where things return to normal.

Larry Niven had these "displacement booths" which he desribed as
changing matter into some kind of "super neutrino" for transmission.
That's the kind of thing I had in mind.

>>But normal gravity can distort space in only one sense. It can only
>>_increase_ the curvature. You want to be able to decrease it too.
>
>You can pile a few separate waves of stretches against each other to form
>pockets of compression.
>

What I've read about the current "warp drive" and wormhole theories
suggest you can't work the trick without generating negative mass.

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