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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Stephen Harding"  wrote in message news:10n7vse$3s5nk$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   I recall reading "somewhere" that space travel in the future (very,   
   very, very* future) won't involve actually traveling gazillions of light   
   years away but instead, "punching through" the space-time fabric as a   
   sort of short cut.  I suppose it would be like a great circle route on a   
   globe is shorter than the apparent straight line route or as we think of   
   SciFi wormholes and such.   
      
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   An example is a crumpled map. Increasing the dimensions by one, 2 to 3,   
   allows different areas on the map to touch.   
      
   My guess is that we need to move out of the Sun's gravity well to make   
   measurements and discoveries that will expand our knowledge of Physics. Our   
   current theories fail to explain the structure of galaxies and we can't   
   reconcile Quantum Mechanics with Relativity.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_time   
      
   Atomic weights didn't make sense until Neutrons were discovered, as recently   
   as 1932.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_neutron   
   "At the start of the 20th century, the vigorous debate as to the existence   
   of atoms had not yet been resolved."   
      
   Physics and Chemistry advance when someone finally makes the critical   
   measurement that disproves the old system, like Galileo supposedly dropping   
   weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa to disprove Aristotle and allow   
   science to break free from his stifling errors.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa_experiment   
      
   "Astronaut David Scott performed a version of the experiment on the Moon   
   during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, dropping a feather and a hammer from   
   his hands. Because of the negligible lunar atmosphere, there was no drag on   
   the feather, which reached the lunar surface at the same time as the   
   hammer."   
      
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