<story><title>Positive Energy Warp Drive from Hidden Geometric Structures</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06488</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperpallium2</author><text>If we&amp;#x27;re talking surprising applications of FTL, what about reducing latencies within CPUs?</text></item><item><author>godelski</author><text>Everyone always talks about FTL travel for spacecraft, but there&amp;#x27;s also an interesting perspective from weapons side (and this a reason to be a bit careful and think about some ethics as we move along). A FTL kinetic weapon would be devastating. If it comes with a collapsing warp bubble then there&amp;#x27;s basically a gamma ray &amp;quot;gun&amp;quot; that travels right in front of your mass that is traveling at tremendous speeds. You look at impacts on the ISS and you can see how much damage a small object does[0]. This is also especially important when trying to develop such a device for travel as you&amp;#x27;ll probably be sending small objects before a spaceship, or rather a &amp;quot;bullet&amp;quot;. Where that object ends up may be in serious danger.&lt;p&gt;Edit: And as others are pointing out, communication. There&amp;#x27;s a whole slew of technologies that could be improved&amp;#x2F;invented if you can move things&amp;#x2F;information FTL.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.esa.int&amp;#x2F;Safety_Security&amp;#x2F;Space_Debris&amp;#x2F;Hypervelocity_impacts_and_protecting_spacecraft&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.esa.int&amp;#x2F;Safety_Security&amp;#x2F;Space_Debris&amp;#x2F;Hyperveloci...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaneross</author><text>Funnily enough, the writers of ST:TNG had this idea too.  The main computer of the Enterprise-D was huge (9 decks tall) and generated a subspace field so that optical processing ran faster than light.</text></comment>
<story><title>Positive Energy Warp Drive from Hidden Geometric Structures</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06488</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperpallium2</author><text>If we&amp;#x27;re talking surprising applications of FTL, what about reducing latencies within CPUs?</text></item><item><author>godelski</author><text>Everyone always talks about FTL travel for spacecraft, but there&amp;#x27;s also an interesting perspective from weapons side (and this a reason to be a bit careful and think about some ethics as we move along). A FTL kinetic weapon would be devastating. If it comes with a collapsing warp bubble then there&amp;#x27;s basically a gamma ray &amp;quot;gun&amp;quot; that travels right in front of your mass that is traveling at tremendous speeds. You look at impacts on the ISS and you can see how much damage a small object does[0]. This is also especially important when trying to develop such a device for travel as you&amp;#x27;ll probably be sending small objects before a spaceship, or rather a &amp;quot;bullet&amp;quot;. Where that object ends up may be in serious danger.&lt;p&gt;Edit: And as others are pointing out, communication. There&amp;#x27;s a whole slew of technologies that could be improved&amp;#x2F;invented if you can move things&amp;#x2F;information FTL.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.esa.int&amp;#x2F;Safety_Security&amp;#x2F;Space_Debris&amp;#x2F;Hypervelocity_impacts_and_protecting_spacecraft&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.esa.int&amp;#x2F;Safety_Security&amp;#x2F;Space_Debris&amp;#x2F;Hyperveloci...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>This would also be neat. And of course any information communication. While Ansibles[0] are typically used to verbally communicate with someone why not &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; information?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ansible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ansible&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>