But if there *were* an ether, it would solve several of Traveller's physics problems. E.g. it would provide an absolute rest frame to resolve various relativistic problems, it would give reactionless drives something to push against, etc. never mind that it's completely invalidated by various experiments. :)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
T5 says they collect "Exotic Particles"

I'm kinda wondering what would happen if you skimmed off 0.001% of the
kinetic energy of a tachyon passing through the sail.

I think I'll stick with the aether. That's definitely an "exotic particle" . . . seeing as how it doesn't really exist, at least not in *our* dimension. :)

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