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Jul 10, 2020 at 14:11 comment added SRM @BBeast I was aiming at something like the gravity waves but leaving the idea more open-ended for whatever effect such a vacuum might have, which depends somewhat on how the author makes the jump drive work.
Jul 10, 2020 at 12:23 comment added BBeast Although if it were me, I would explain the "thunderclap" by saying it produces a bucketload of gravitational waves, which is has real-life precedent (especially if the jump drive functions by warping space somehow). Then you don't have to contrive some quantum field theory technobabble.
Jul 10, 2020 at 12:19 comment added BBeast @user253751 'False vacuum' does not refer to the soup of real and virtual particles which tends to occupy space where there is nominally a vacuum, but rather about the ground state of the quantum fields which define matter and forces in our universe. So the "true vacuum" SRM talks of has nothing to do with the quantum field theory true vacuum.
Jul 10, 2020 at 10:43 comment added Criticizing Israel not allowed Note: If we are in a false vacuum, creating a true vacuum is expected to lead to the complete destruction of the universe. Yes, really, all of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Existential_threat
Jul 9, 2020 at 6:55 comment added BBeast This establishes planetary space as a no warp zone, although it doesn't make clear why it is more efficient to warp the whole planet rather than simply move your ships far from planets before they can warp. It also sounds like the bigger the thing warped, the bigger the thunderclap, so warping planets might destroy the entire solar system unless you can posit that the effect decays rapidly with distance (although a force which decays sufficiently rapidly probably doesn't reach very far anyway, rendering the thunderclap not as dangerous).
Jul 9, 2020 at 5:53 history answered SRM CC BY-SA 4.0