[ExI] spaceship string theory

[Stefano Vaj]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>
wrote:

> At 08:27 AM 7/16/2008 -0700, Jef wrote:
>
>  As for the question of the spaceships and the strings, what could
>> possibly distinguish a system of spaceships connected by string from a
>> system of spaceship components?  In other words, if the strings must
>> break, then mustn't also the connections between components of the
>> ship?
>>
>
> That was my intuition also. Clearly this explains the Fermi Absence--when
> spacecraft travel close enough to c to make interstellar travel feasible,
> they disintegrate. Bad luck. <optional smiley>
>

In fact, one should infer that any object at all is bound to break as it
approaches c. What about string-string, as in M-theory? :-///

Stefano Vaj
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