Today's academic writing

Oct 10, 2007 13:59

It is common knowledge that due to the unstable nature of the spatial translation through the event horizon it is impossible to precisely predict where a vessel will emerge from a wormhole, even knowing it's vector and location when entering. It is due to this fact that entering a wormhole while another vessel is "in transit" (contrary to popular opinion, wormhole travel is not instantaneous, though this is mostly of academic interest) is high inadvisable, as there is a high likelihood of the two vessels colliding, and causing heavy damages to both. Some evidence suggest that certain properties of gravity are altered inside a wormhole in such a way as to cause traveling vessels to be attracted to each other more then would be expected in normal space, increasing the risk of collision.

On the other hand, the suggestion that any such explosion caused by collision will cause the destabilization of the wormhole in any way is purely theoretical and completely unsupported by empirical evidence. And furthermore, the hypothesis that such an event will cause a galaxy-wide event throughout the wormhole nexus is frankly preposterous.

This is the version the players got, with the citations removed. It goes on to describe an experiment with several unmanned probes. There's even some math.

I guess I have to go back to writing about fixed assets constraint theory now...
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