#TheBond: Marla
Marla had been a gifted child. She graduated at age 13, got her master's degree at 15 and wrote an already groundbreaking piece as her PhD Thesis when she was 20. That was in the year 2089. ...
(New storyline ... yay!)
#Einstein, #Darwin, #Transspace, #Aliens, #SpaceOpera, #SpaceTravel, #SciFi
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/the-bond/01-marla?c=mst
#Transspace: Time Travel
The last chapter of this worldbuilding exercise focuses on things not invented yet. Let's go back to time travelling. Even 100 years after the enclave, scientists have no practical clue how to do it, although some groups have worked on it since the beginning. ...
#SpaceTravel, #FTL, #Worldbuilding, #SciFi, #AmWriting, #SpaceOpera
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/transspace/12-time-travel?c=mst
#Transspace: Force Fields
On a milestone date, January 1st 2100, a company formed out of the enclave think tank launched a product they called "Grava", a brand name that would become a synonym for force field tech afterwards. ...
#Gravity, #SpaceTravel, #FTL, #Worldbuilding, #SciFi, #AmWriting, #SpaceOpera
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/transspace/11-force-fields?c=mst
#Transspace: Communication
Things that travel at the speed of light have the most benefit from the anatomy of spacetime that the teams on the Enclave workshops had discovered. So FTL communication was one of the first thriving engineering fields that emerged.
Even the G-Tubes useless for humans had been good enough to send probes, robots and drones into transspace. The first series of transspace communication phalanxes had settled at G171, which brought the moon into high-speed real-time communication ranges of 8ms latency. And the delay for communication from Mars went down to 3 seconds on average, good enough for live streams. The communication in the whole solar system changed completely after the first generation.
Today all colonies are connected through a fourth-generation communication system running on G180k. This renders a reaction time of 22 ms with the Titan colony and 90 minutes with the science station in the Rana system about 30 Ly away.
#Transspace - G-Tubes
Two of the participants in the Enclave project, Charles Frempton, an engineer and Janice De Jong, a data scientist, have worked on the possibility to enter deeper layers of the gravitational dimensions. This technology was considered the basis for Faster Than Light travel.
The problem had to be solved with raw computing power. It took them 2 years alone to find a geometric field that theoretically could have worked. Toward the end, they could present the first prototype, that could generate a small 80 cm diameter portal to a 25 times deeper gravitational layer - making everything 25 times faster than in our world without additional effort.
Later on, Frempton created a probe that fitted through the hole. It made it to the moon in 42 minutes using normal propulsion.
They called that tube geometry "G25" but that was not the end. Over the years, other solutions have been found. The current maximum is G180k.
#Transspace - Project Enclave
By the year 2095, Marla Lays theory was complete and confirmed correct, but the practical implications as well as the potential to change the world was either unknown or mere speculation.
One year later, Lay with her good reputation and massive network could convince seven other leading physicists and three engineers of a two-year project called "Enclave".
Together with 50 other doctoral candidates and technicians, they founded a science think tank in Noordwijk, Netherlands, which provided infrastructure for both theoretical context and practical construction and experimentation.
They kept their discoveries close until the designated end in the year 2098, thus the project title Enclave.
The result was a working, faster than light propulsion model, the so-called Grava drive that could project the first artificial force field and a science paper that was considered the seed of all later inventions.
#Transspace - Marla Lay
The theory of Transspace has been created by the dutch scientist Marla Lay. She started to work on it during her PhD phase at the end of the 2080s and published the groundbreaking paper in the year 2095.
The theory came with twelve base formulae and didn't contain any singularities anymore like all its predecessors. Yet it could be considered a superset of the theory or relativity and the quantum theory for most aspects. But now, we could also predict the edge cases.
Although Lay was in the lead, she already had a rather big staff and one of the best quantum computer arrays to work with. And also later, she went through an unorthodox path and decided to involve the best scientists and engineers in the world to work on practical proof and potential technical inventions.
Project "Enclave" started in 1996. More in the next post.
#Transspace - Time Dimensions
The third group of dimensions after space and gravity form the time continuum. The beautiful symmetry also gives us three of them.
However, we humans can only sense one. We live our lives on a timeline moving permanently in one direction.
The theory says that the other dimensions contain alternate realities and form the multiverse of possibilities. The timelines next to us contain a sequence of events that are very similar to ours. Timelines further away form different worlds.
However, it is technically not yet possible to prove that. Many scientists work on gravity effects, some also concentrate on the time effects of the theory. But there was no breakthrough yet. All of this remains theory for now.
But the theory says that time travel is more complex than imagined. Going back in time means contaminating a timeline, which automatically forms another one. So you simply can't go back into your own timeline.
#Transspace - Gravity Dimensions
It's getting more esoteric now. This part forms the perfect technobabble for space story essentials like anti-gravity and FTL travel.
Next to the space dimensions, there are also three gravitational dimensions, that our senses and brains can't realize. Our existence incorporates two of these dimensions. We're living on a gravitational plane.
Only on this plane, a meter is actually a meter and a kilogram is a kilogram. And more importantly, lightspeed and the gravitational constant are what they are. You move to another layer and things are different.
In the early days, after the theory had been postulated, people found out that a certain geometry of force fields could form a tube or a portal that allows switching to higher or lower gravity layers.
That made it possible to use the different perspectives over there and travel faster - even faster than light.
In some future chapters, I go into more detail on where that went.
#Transspace - Space Dimensions
The space dimensions are well known. They already existed in some form even in the earlier theories. Einstein gave them the twist that these dimensions are curved and that mass affects the amount of bending.
The (imaginary) Transspace has given them another angle that changed or extended some of our imagination of the three space dimensions.
The theory itself is computer-assisted. An AI and a Quantum Computer have calculated most of the equations' solutions.
One of them predicts that all dimensions fold into themselves. So very simplified, you could say if you travel some billion years in the same direction, you might be able to reach your starting point again.
Some distant galaxy we observe with our telescope might even be our own milky way in its early days.
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