swansont

! Moderator Note If you want to discuss your theory do so in a different thread in speculations. But without advertising your book.

To add to MigL’s comment - it’s an established approach to look for violation of energy or momentum in a chosen frame, because if you find a violation one frame, it’s game over. SR tells us the the laws of physics have to work the same in all frames.

The difficulty will be in stepping down the energy of the individual particles - you want more charge carriers at lower energy. e.g. you want 10^20 charge carriers at 1 keV, not 10^17 at 1 MeV (and for the fusion case you want this in a conductor, not a plasma)

But you have to, in order to eliminate it.

Are there any reactors that directly generate electricity, rather than heating water to run a steam turbine?

And you have to eliminate the mundane to conclude the sensational.

The FTL signal doesn’t violate causality for the sender and receiver. The violation appears when you add the moving observer.

It would violate it just as explained in the video. Instantaneous is just the most extreme case of FTL.

Because it sounded good to the writers, and that overruled any science objections that might have popped up. IOW, they wanted to keep the dialog where they call Neo “copper-top” And they needed a reason for the machines keeping humans around, because without them there’s no movie. And perhaps other plot-driven reasons. It’s a work of fiction.

It’s not even Lorentz transforms being shown. Just x vs ct. Light travels at c, so it shows up as a 45 degree line (the null line). If you go slower it takes longer to go some distance x, so that will appear above (steeper). FTL would go below. Both cases are depicted - one for the FTL signal, one for the STL ship. If you didn’t move it would show up as a vertical line - motion through time but not space. The Lorentz transforms would show up if you rotated this to be in the ship’s frame.

Yes, my mistake. Apologies to @Moontanman

I’m only responding to what you say when you quote me. That’s presumably a reply to me.

You keep changing the topic. This was not the point under discussion. The issue was whether a FTL craft could see a causality violation and the answer is yes. It does not require a STL craft. I suspect he used the STL craft so that there was only one violation of physical law. If there were two, then the source of the violation would be ambiguous. We were discussing the video you asked me to watch. Not another example.

What train of ships? The video discusses a supernova and when Vega learns of it. There’s one ship. The diagram did not use an instantaneous communication. You can see the signal took time. Instantaneous would be a horizontal line A FTL ship would be below the null line, rather than above, but it can still arrive later than Vega receiving the warning. An even larger range if the warning is instantaneous.

There are for beta decay, but I suspect alpha decay would damage the semiconductor, and the higher temperatures might not be well-tolerated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device

Instantaneous will violate causality. I’m not sure how that’s OK.

! Moderator Note Your thread on this was closed. Don’t bring it up again.

I said “in principle”

The devil's in the details here. How does it do this?

You could draw the lines in his diagram for a FTL ship. Depending on the speed of the ship (it's not instantaneous in his example; that would be a horizontal line) you could have a violation or not, depending on the speed. But you had said it was instantaneous, and if you drew the lines, you would get a causality violation for a finite speed FTL ship If you can put it in a nutshell and hand it to me (in principle) it's a physical thing.

I think Aesop wrote about this phenomenon. The presumption that it's mundane is supported by the sheer volume of all the mundane things that happen every minute of every day. And all of the experimental evidence supporting all of our theories. I can assume my TV works by the known workings of digital electronics. I don't have to give equal weight to the idea that it's tiny goblins inside the box. You can only reach a conclusion that it's goblins if you eliminate the possibility that it's mundane science. IOW, the conclusion that it's goblins requires that you conclude that the mundane science is in fact wrong, which you can't do unless you have sufficient evidence — something that we know is not the case. And then you need a coherent model of the goblins. Did I claim that you did? I said incomplete is not the same as being wrong. Unless you are in the domain of relativity or the standard model where the model is incomplete, you are in the realm where it is experimentally confirmed, i.e. accepted to be correct. If some phenomenon doesn't follow the model, then you need to have sufficient evidence to show that this is the case. You can ask for clarification with accusing me of misrepresenting you, and when you make that accusation, it would be nice if it were actually the case. Unless one is positing that UAPs are dark matter or dark energy phenomena, I don't see the relevance. And it's not that we know nothing about DM and DE, so there are constraints. If you want to reinvent the wheel every time, that's up to you. But it's not how science proceeds.

I’m sure there are, but I can only go by what you posted. If you have a video that says what you claim - that causality is only violated for STL craft but not from FTL craft - from a credible source, and you tell us when they say it, I will watch it (if the video is watchable in the US) But you said the issue is with a diagram in the video, so if that’s the case, why can’t you post a screenshot?

And we never seem to get the details of these incidents, with all this great data. We’re told they exist, but that seems to be the end of the road.

Because black holes are formed from particles in sufficiently close proximity

A sphere has a curved geometry, but it’s not a physical object.