+Oltux72 he/him Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 Suppose we have a laser beam that is split and one half is sent through a speed bubble. Does any pulse sent on the accelerated route arrive earlier? If not, why? Does a speed bubble change the speed of light? That is a question we can actually answer in the negative. Electrons in atoms are pretty fast in the case of the heavier elements. So fast that their chemical properties are altered by relativistic effects. If you lowered the speed of light by an order of magnitude, it would affect the iron, zinc and cobalt in your enzymes. You would be dead within seconds. Clearly it does not expand space correspondingly, or Wayne couldn't use it to move faster from place to place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookish Ocelot she/her Posted June 2, 2019 Report Share Posted June 2, 2019 There’s dozens of other threads on this. The general conclusion seems to be that we have the foundation (allomancy) for FTL, but in-world, the level of technological and scientific understanding isn’t high enough. I don’t think we’ll see FTL until fourth era mistborn, or the third trilogy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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