I think what's really interesting about this that most readers seem to overlook is the claims about subluminal warp drive, which is practically realizable in a way that the science-fictional faster-than-light case is not
Any subliminal system that avoids Doppler shifting everything in front of your ship into hard X-rays is going to be a big deal. Also help with micrometeoroids.
Everyone papers over these very real problems like they’ll just get solved. But if you can keep your ship at .05c while moving at .4c relative to your starting point that’ll be a huge deal.
You can, but it's not always respected by the user's device. Mobile devices will usually respect it but desktop browsers will often ignore it and start the video from the beginning.
>desktop browsers will often ignore it and start the video from the beginning.
Is there some data on this, or are you just making it up? It's long been a feature on one of the largest internet sites. I've never not had it work on the desktop, at least on Firefox, Brave, and Chromium on both Mac and Linux.
Many websites use handlers for YouTube links in their comments/messages section that treat it differently that just a hyperlink. For example, if you post a plain YouTube URL to Imgur and someone clicks on it, it won't take them to YouTube.com. It'll open a small pop-up player that strip out any modifiers like the timecode and plays the video from the start. I've also run into this problem trying to share videos with subtitles enabled by default.
For what it's worth, I've had it happen a few times and I use Firefox on a PC. I suspect it's probably more to do with linking variables after the url proper from certain sites, rather than a browser-level complaint.
Baby steps! Every step is worth it. I know the math and science doesn't support me but I'm convinced FTL is possible and that the universe won't die a heat death.
The universe heat death theory makes me think of comics where people extrapolate the data they have while lacking other critical data. https://xkcd.com/605/
Most of the universe is void. Most of the rest is whatever dark matter is. What we consider to be the entirety of material reality is a fraction of a fraction, and out of that, as far as we can tell, Earth has the only life that exists. There's probably more life out there, but if there is, as the Fermi Paradox points out, they're awfully quiet.
I think it's fair to assume that life will have practically zero impact on the universe. Even if the universe was teeming with it, it would be of such little significance at scale that it might as well be a rounding error in reality.
There is merit to your thought process but it could just as easily be that life is the spark that sets off an explosion that irrevecobly changes the universe.
Think of a virus. A handful of specially shaped molecules has permanently changed human society.
What? It does no such thing, it just assumes life doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics, which seems reasonable considering we've never observed it doing so.
It assumes life is subject to the second law of thermodynamics, which it is.
Avoiding heat death requires a renewable source of negentropy, to bypass the second law. Some sort of perpetual motion machine that you can pump energy out of. E.g. if you could extract work out of the expansion of the universe fast enough to build expansion-work-extractors faster than they decay, and expansion continues indefinitely, then you can avoid heat death.
Everyone papers over these very real problems like they’ll just get solved. But if you can keep your ship at .05c while moving at .4c relative to your starting point that’ll be a huge deal.