Spoilers Theory on the USS Discovery propulsion

[rahullak]

Art is a dictatorship.

You can't have something completely new. Whatever new you get, is bound to be some combination of something you've seen or heard of before.

The idea of "physics is biology..." is a new idea, but it isn't completely out-of-the-world. And whether it has any basis in our reality shouldn't matter. It is after all, science-fiction. The benchmark shouldn't be "How real is this?" but "Were the stories interesting, entertaining, having scientific or pseudo-scientific elements.. etc.?

 

[Philip Guyott]

I really hope this is completely wrong. I'm literally at a loss of words to describe how idiotic the idea of warping through mushroom dimension is.

Lord, help us all, he was right

A few people in the production shortly before the premiere talked about 'apparent canon breaches' being cleared up later on. I'd take a guess that this is what they were referring to. The drive either doesn't work, or has some fatal drawback we'll find out about later. Dare I say... Salamanders?

The fatal drawback of using fungus in this way is that everyone on the ship will get athletes foot.

 

[Longinus]

Well, shit, it was stupid.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Stamets' rambling about the Mushverse sounded like a bastardised version of string theory, but with earthy notes that lend delightful umami to any stir-fry or soup.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Looking up the Wikipedia link above, the first person to float this theory was someone named Potter.

Boy, Jason Isaacs is gonna be pissed...

 

[Ronald Held]

Seems unlikely to be used for propulsion, as most races use warp drive similar to the of the Federation.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Mushroom propulsion. Mushpulsion. Proshroomzoom. Far out, man.

 

[Spider]

Mushroom propulsion. Mushpulsion. Proshroomzoom. Far out, man.

I used to have shit like that on my wall back in the 70s. LOL

 

[KirkusOveractus]

https://ispocklogic.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/travels-of-spocklogic-iii/keep-on-trekkin/

 

[INACTIVEUSS Einstein]

I really hope this is completely wrong. I'm literally at a loss of words to describe how idiotic the idea of warping through mushroom dimension is.

Yeah I really hope there is more to it, like the 'spores' are not just fungal spores but some kinda quantum entangled life, because initially at least, it sounds like utter bollocks lol.

 

[Kemaiku]

My idea was a joke, but I prefer it to the mystical "all spores are connected on a quantum level we just need to number crunch the entaglement and we can warp to all spores" utter horseshit this episode showed.

Or they really *are* all under the influence, their mucking about with the core is causing wormhole imbalance jumps coincidentally, and it's making them think this is all happening and their all going to die from messing with it all.

Or the Force, whatever.

 

[Spider]

This whole bit about quantum physics and biology sounds vaguely like what is now being called "systems" chemistry or "systems" biology.

God help me, but I actually understood the point Stamets was trying to make. LOL

 

[Kemaiku]

They're saying the universe has "veins" and Discovery and Glenn were "riding" them, or rather jumping, which doesn't need lanes but points...

 

[Spider]

What would actually be neat is if Star Trek decided to make a leap and explain what dark matter and dark energy is. With some electrons and up and down quarks you can make anything we can touch and see, except for that small part about not being able to explain what 95% of the universe is composed of. LOL

 

[INACTIVEUSS Einstein]

This whole bit about quantum physics and biology sounds vaguely like what is now being called "systems" chemistry or "systems" biology.

God help me, but I actually understood the point Stamets was trying to make. LOL

That part wasn't really the issue.

It's more that he is a mycologist - and some kind of non-corporeal fungus capable of transporting people across space time wouldn't be a fungus at all - i.e. just a a life form as completely mundane as any other with a bit of a different cell to animals and plants.

If they are gonna suggest its a life form with some kinda quantum entanglement going on, or something, it might seem less absurd.

 

[Kemaiku]

The problem being that the reason it's "dark" is that it lacks the electromagnetic force, which is the key one of the four that makes Light matter work.

Electrons and Photons have a curious relationship in light matter, it forms the basis of our existance. Dark matter is different lacks the ability to interact with one or both of them.

They can't really ever be "together" since they exist in fundementally different ways.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

So, it's different than a potato clock?

 

[Longinus]

What would actually be neat is if Star Trek decided to make a leap and explain what dark matter and dark energy is.

It would not be neat if their explanation is that dark matter is space mushrooms.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

So, it's different than a potato clock?

Almost completely identical, except with the potato clock only time flies.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Almost completely identical, except with the potato clock only time flies.

But it's still a new way to fly! And you wouldn't know where time flies to when it isn't here!