Greyships & Spacefillers
2c/3 perpendicular signals through 'stripes'
Greyships & Spacefillers
extensible signal that moves at
speed 2c/3 through 'stripes' agar,
at right angles to the stripes
Hartmut Holzwart, 24 April 2006
speed 2c/3 through 'stripes' agar,
at right angles to the stripes
Hartmut Holzwart, 24 April 2006
It was shown in 1993 that signals travelling parallel to the striped medium must move at the speed of light -- but it turns out that non-destructive signals perpendicular to the stripes are also possible, and these follow different rules. In particular, they can move at a speed of 2c/3 orthogonally, slower than lightspeed but faster than a spaceship can travel through vacuum.