what we've been talking about is special relativity
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it's "special" bc it's the special case where the graph is smooth and flat
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general relativity is the theory of what it looks like when it's bent and curved
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which is what gravity is
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Fucking gravity. Another fucking thing that's everywhere and makes no sense
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that's why the "mass effect" in Mass Effect, it lets you arbitrarily just do things
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I mean not really but close enough
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like the Alcubierre drive is a theoretical way to make a Star Trek FTL drive in real life
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the math checks out, you just need a way to manipulate gravity at a whim
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hundreds of black holes thousands of times the mass of the sun etc
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and because space and time are one thing, bending it means bending all of it
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you would by necessity be time traveling as well as space traveling
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Which is why my story - which is soft SF but I feel the need to not do copout space magic -
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