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• SFreader commented on Test Case
  Re: '... 'something like' is the operational phrase.' I've been expecting SF authors to jump on Dark Energy (DE) as this decade's newest hand-wave to address FTL comms ever since DE was hypothesized as the culprit driving the ever increasing rate of expansion of the universe. If yes, then once physicists/engineers find and localize (trap) DE, it's a mere matter of figuring out how to compress or release DE as needed as the locomotive force for whatever missile/missive you want delivered at FTL speeds. Would also be interesting if DE and Dark Matter had their own (different) set of quantum...
• Elderly Cynic commented on Test Case
  It wouldn't really help, and the point of dark matter (or Aetherium, as it should really be called) is to make the observations fit the dogmas of general relativity. I.e. the rules it doesn't play by are those of quantum mechanics, not GR....
• SFreader commented on Test Case
  Or, a modified theory of gravity as per Erik Verlinde? https://phys.org/news/2016-11-theory-gravity-dark.html...
• Elderly Cynic commented on Test Case
  Yes, though heretics have been pointing out for decades that almost all of modern cosmology is a stack of cards based on the dogma that Einstein's actual formula is the Ultimate Truth as far as mass, energy, motion and gravity go, and we have damn-all evidence for it that doesn't rely on assuming that very dogma! Thanks for the link. I may look at his paper....
• Greg Tingey commented on Test Case
  THAT looks very interesting indeed. Ther are two points in its favour - straight off: 1. It's from first principles, rather than adding epicycles to fit the data. 2. It's SIMPLER ( Occam ) See also...