The House of Path has many unusual members. These are episodes in the lives of several of them. Can a changeling queen learn to love? Can an immortal alicorn deal with death? Can an ordinary pony learn to deal with life?
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couldn't Luna also concentrate moonlight into a beam to help out as well. before they use the mana beam
I see two problems with this:
1) Deceleration
2) The return trip.
I'm sure they won't expect a bunch of alicorns to be ready at the other end? Or will there be a bunch of brave ponies going on a one-way trip for science, knowing it will be their doom?
I thought they would make some sort of "teleport drive" where they'd teleport relatively short distances, but very quickly after one another.
First Contact! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.............!!!!
I can see Luna slipping back into old patterns from time to time
8155736 Rapid teleports have the same issue as alot of other solutions POWER and very few unicorns able to teleport far enough to be effective. How many unicorns have the range to reach the moon then turn around and teleport right to Equestria then repeat that many times.
8155680 Maybe but thats the only way it would be effective as of the moment most of the ideas for solar sails have concentrated on light from the sun directly
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Maybe they going to build a gate or "cosmic marker".
Like the original plan in the Lost in Space movie.
It is relativly "easy" to make an artifical worm hole if you are present on both end.
I wonder if you could make an Ion Engine from a Pegasus using the same technique they use to make thunder and lightning. Might work well for maneuvering once they get to the end spot.
reminds me of "flight of the dragonfly" by Robert L. Forward: it used a combination of solar-sail and powerful Lasers (based in solar orbit) to accelerate to a nearby star...and to decelerate, they detached part of the sail, and bounced the Lasers off of it to the main ship!
(oh, and it was a one-way trip, they spent their whole lives exploring that star system.)
8155865 problem is they never mentioned that in this fic at all. So yeah Starry figured out how to get there but not back.
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Prometheus did make it back home. Read the fifth book in the series.
At least someone else has heard of the series.
I agree with eric, it's a great way to step on the gas to get there. No brakes, though, and how do they get back? We shall see, eh? Also, what about relativistic effects traveling at 0.97c? It's still going to take 50 years to get there and back again, plus communication is not going to be easy.
Damn, you got me hooked but good!
The issue I can see is deceleration at the destination. Getting back is covered in the previous chapter, as all they need to teleport even that far is a mana beacon at the planned destination. Of course there will be a beacon at home for the return trip.
Actually, I suppose that if they could fire a smaller beacon out of the vessel at the destination and just slow that down relative to the Far Star, they might be able to teleport the exploration ship to it and shed the velocity that way. If the relative kinetic energies of a 50 light year jump can be handled by a teleport spell, it should be able to handle a fair chunk of velocity dumping, even of it takes multiple 'ports back to the beacon and flying past again to shed all the velocity.
By this point, I'm surprised that Path's longevity hasn't started to raise a few eyebrows. Given comparative human ages (taken from other factors like the ages of the kids in Quantum Gallop), it seems like Path was likely in his late twenties or early thirties in A Different Perspective. This chapter is 107 to 108 years later....he's got to be around 140. While I'll give that we haven't gotten a direct indication of a normal pony lifespan, Techbird is remarked as being so old that she should have passed on years ago...yet when she was first introduced in A Different Perspective, she was remarked upon as a young griffoness.
On the other hand, Destined did refer to someone off-scene as 'dad' near the end of Quantum Gallop after Silk sent his message into the distant future. It still seems as though if Path has somehow gained an immortal-like lifespan, someone should be beginning to notice signs of him not aging normally.
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Path's lifespan has to do with when he died and met Mort in Chapter 18 of A Different Perspective. Mort gave Path the option of dying or returning to life. When Path chose life, Mort said "Call me Mort. We will not meet again for a very long time, Long Path." It's also discussed later that becoming an alicorn was Path's potential destiny, but it didn't work out. So presumably Mort gave Path an alicorn lifespan even though he didn't ascend.
a vary good idea that will work out in the log run, but one thing was forgot
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity: A Simplified Explanation
Einstein realized that massive objects caused a distortion in space-time
the closer you get to the speed of light the slower time gets.
granted i have a hug cheat sheet as it has happen in the story at this point.
https://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html
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Was it forgotten? Maybe. Maybe not.
In the time-honored tradition of pedants everywhere, I will now spend a few minutes and several paragraphs nit-picking a single word.
It will not reduce exponentially, it will reduce proportional to the inverse of the square. It's in the name. This is equivalent to saying a quadratic equation is an exponential increase; it must be accounted an error in any context more technical than "number goes up fast". They do not only give you different numbers, but they imply vastly distinct physical causes.
Imagine that we go whole hog trying to catch light from the sun. We build a complete sphere around it! Ignoring for a moment anything that might be blocked or reflected or whatnot, no matter what size the sphere is, it will capture exactly all the light. Whether you've somehow built it right above the corona, or space it out wide enough to contain the solar system, or the galaxy!
Now return to your spaceship. You build a sail that has a fixed area. How much of the sun's light does that capture, you wonder? Well, look at the sail's position, and imagine the sphere that it would be a part of. If the whole sphere captures all the light, and your sail has one-thousandth of the surface area of the sphere, why then you must be catching one-thousandth of the sun's light! But then you move further away, and you have to compare it to a different sphere. If you're twice as far away, the sphere is twice as big, with four times the area. So now you're getting only a fourth of the output.
This is the physical interpretation of an inverse-square rule. You have matter, force, or energy radiating outward in a sphere (or cone-shaped section of a sphere), diminishing in density or intensity as it spreads out over a wider area based on the distance from the point of origin.
Exponential decay, by contrast, is what happens when, e.g., something is directly blocking, deflecting, or absorbing a portion of a signal. Let's say for some reason we've got an awful lot of space dust, as space dust goes. Every time your beam of light goes an additional kilometer, it has to pass through a certain quantity of matter. The odds of making it through the gauntlet undeflected are roughly the same for each photon, so the amount that comes out is always proportional to the amount that goes in.
Let's say, making up some numbers out of thin air, you've got enough dust in a region to lose half your signal over a kilometer. If the next kilometer has just as much dust? Why, once again, only half the photons make it through, and the signal is halved again! Every fixed distance the signal travels reduces the strength by a proportion of the current strength, whether it's the first kilometer or one hundred and first.
See? Totally different.
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You are absolutely correct and I do know the difference.