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It moves inter-dimensionally by proximity to concentrated amounts of nuclear particles.
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
UFOs (if they are extraterrestrials) have really good sensors and are either in our vicinity on patrol, commercial travel or exploration, xeno-anthropology, xeno-biology missions and they have ansibles.
That is to say if they are from "out of town" by any distance they have overcome the physical imitations of our present understanding of physics and can communicate and monitor without bothering with light speed limitations we have to deal with.
it probably has to do with fictitious energy fields. in physics "fictitious" does not mean what it means to the average person or knee jerk skeptic. fictitious or vis inert fields are those fields which are not manifest unless a change is taking place or a force is being applied to a energy field or a mass. a familiar example would be inertia. in fact the word inertia derives its name from "vis inert" or "energy" + "dead" in latin. As we all know inertia is very real and has very real consequences. yet it is labelled a fictitious field. whats important is fictitious fields act instantly across any distance. and if you had the right sort of "fictitious" field you might be able to take advantage of the instantaneous nature of it's action.
unless you are positing an energy being or something spiritual or something like that it is irrelevant if they have radically different biology or not. they would still think it significant if we demonstrated high technology such as mastery of atomic power. and they would likely do so even if atomic energy is laughably primitive to them. they would know we may soon be out there challenging them in thier own turf. a primitive and violence prone newcomer. or they might be altruistic and know that most civilizations don't outlive their discover of atomic power. it's all speculation of course but reasonable; if you take the existence of nearby advanced technological civilizations as a given.
originally posted by: comatosed
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
UFOs (if they are extraterrestrials) have really good sensors and are either in our vicinity on patrol, commercial travel or exploration, xeno-anthropology, xeno-biology missions and they have ansibles.
That is to say if they are from "out of town" by any distance they have overcome the physical imitations of our present understanding of physics and can communicate and monitor without bothering with light speed limitations we have to deal with.
it probably has to do with fictitious energy fields. in physics "fictitious" does not mean what it means to the average person or knee jerk skeptic. fictitious or vis inert fields are those fields which are not manifest unless a change is taking place or a force is being applied to a energy field or a mass. a familiar example would be inertia. in fact the word inertia derives its name from "vis inert" or "energy" + "dead" in latin. As we all know inertia is very real and has very real consequences. yet it is labelled a fictitious field. whats important is fictitious fields act instantly across any distance. and if you had the right sort of "fictitious" field you might be able to take advantage of the instantaneous nature of it's action.
How would we know it would affect them in any way? That's assuming they are like us. For all we know they could feed on mercury and breath Co2. We can't always assume they are biologically like us. Just saying.
inertia is an example of a fictitious force using the physics definition. i was using it to illustrate that fictitious forces are not fictitious in the common understanding of the word. there are other fictitious forces. a suitable fictitious force may exist that would allow instant communication over any distance. fictitious forces are not subject to FTL restrictions like normal forces are.
originally posted by: comatosed
a reply to: stormbringer1701
I was referring to Inertia.. You know how its physically impossible for humans to travel at the speed of light, well your comment looked as if you were saying 'E.T.' would be affected by it(inertia). I probably misinterpreted what you were saying.
… they would still think it significant if we demonstrated high technology such as mastery of atomic power. and they would likely do so even if atomic energy is laughably primitive to them…
but at the speed of light wouldn't we see tons of space traffic?