Interstellar Travel

This is a key area. How can travel between the stars be really interesting? You either have to make up a "warp factor" of some kind, a wormhole, or another way to go much faster than light. I guess we could all become FTL particles, but travel that way seems unlikely.

My bet and plan if I ever really write in this universe is in the teleport chamber type idea. I think the book was _A Step Farther Out_. It would be a real pain to get one of these connection points there, but once they are there, travel is instantaneous.

That still has a credibility jump, but it is more believable, at least now, than "Warp 9" or "Hyperspace". :)

How Do Worlds Form

While many will likely defend them to the death, a big problem with thinking about the heavens in the context of this forum (a designed universe) is that many of the theories of stellar and planetary formation leave a lot to be desired.

Lets see:

- Something blew up (supernova or several).

- The results then gathered together. -- But I thought they blew up? When was the last time you saw something taking spontaneous order?

- Then gas congealed, violating lots of known principles and not only did a star form, so did planets, without orbital velocity being wacky.

This grossly simplifies some things, but this is the reason I have such a hard time with the modern myth of Chance being the "new god." It doesn't make sense at so many levels.

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Getting back to this blog though, even these wacky ideas are probably necessary to have a universe to explore. How do things keep going for the long periods of time to travel stellar distances otherwise?

Just rambling....