Does anyone out there remember an article about a hypothetical mechanism for a "jump" drive?
The basic premise involved mapping our universe on to the surface of a sphere, with all the "trumpet bell" gravitational field wells extending below the surface towards the center of the sphere with black hole field wells actually reaching the center point and field wells from other, less massive objects only extending in part way (ie. in proportion to mass/gravitational field). The idea was that far enough down a grav well (ie. below the "surface" of the universe) you might be able to create a field of potential energy around an object that would cause it to "quantum leap" (for lack of a better term) across to another grav well without having to try a run through a black hole and all those nasty singularities - a close run at your average main sequence star, or even a gas giant planet, was sufficient if you got your PE cranked up enough. Better still, the process was directional, with the jump point being on the line through the centers of mass forming both wells. The whole thing reminded me of trek-style temporal slingshots around stars.
It may well have been in a "fringe" publication, but I can't remember where or who wrote it.
The basic premise involved mapping our universe on to the surface of a sphere, with all the "trumpet bell" gravitational field wells extending below the surface towards the center of the sphere with black hole field wells actually reaching the center point and field wells from other, less massive objects only extending in part way (ie. in proportion to mass/gravitational field). The idea was that far enough down a grav well (ie. below the "surface" of the universe) you might be able to create a field of potential energy around an object that would cause it to "quantum leap" (for lack of a better term) across to another grav well without having to try a run through a black hole and all those nasty singularities - a close run at your average main sequence star, or even a gas giant planet, was sufficient if you got your PE cranked up enough. Better still, the process was directional, with the jump point being on the line through the centers of mass forming both wells. The whole thing reminded me of trek-style temporal slingshots around stars.
It may well have been in a "fringe" publication, but I can't remember where or who wrote it.
