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| Jul 18, 2016 at 13:29 | comment | added | a4android | Victor, your clarification is much appreciated. I really like your non-answer list. It gives feedback to WBers and helps set standards for answers. It would be great if it was done by more OPs. Your problem sets a high bar and speculative science may be the answer. I had an inkling of another solution, but neutrino radiation would still kill it dead. Alas! | |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 8:04 | comment | added | Victor Stafusa | @a4android Oh, sorry. I meant time travel like in the movie "Back to the Future". I'll edit to clarify that. Anyway, I think that wormholes are great, but if we can find a solution without relying on them, it would be better. Anyway I'm waiting for some answer that solves the issue nicely and creatively without the needing of too much speculative science. If none appears, I'll look for the best answer and accept it anyway. | |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 6:50 | comment | added | a4android | The best thing about the non-answer list is that the OP has clarified the ground rules for any answer. I wish more OPs would do the same thing to give an idea what criteria they applied in selecting their preferred answer. Too often, I have seen OPs choose an answer when other answers were better choices and I couldn't understand why they did so. A non-answer list would have helped. The OP didn't initially exclude exotic possibilities of physics, so they can be in play. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 4:52 | comment | added | a4android | You mention neutrinos above. Since there is no possible matter or mechanism capable of shielding neutrinos and black holes are absurdly difficult to do anything remotely sensible as a shield, then there can only be one answer. Bob Gray's large wormhole or Einstein-Rosen bridge, perhaps it might need to be bigger. Speculative physics, yes, but within reason it does the job. The neutrino problem is fixed too. And it's not on the non-answer list. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 4:43 | comment | added | a4android | Speaking as someone who used time-travel for an answer. I will say I didn't invent my own physics. Time-travel via wormhole is an established scientific concept. Now whether time-holes or wormholes could exist is an open question. This is legitimate speculative physics that does not violate the laws of physics. It is not unreasonable to assume they exist and for an exercise like this to choose the wormhole model with best fit. However, I do agree with the other non-answers on your list. | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 3:54 | history | edited | Victor Stafusa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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