On 3/28/2019 10:14 AM, David Shaw wrote:
> I've been thinking - never a good sign. I understand that good old
> uncle Albert's theories state that FTL travel isn't possible, because
> - and I'm paraphrasing from memory here, so I could well be wrong - if
> you jump from A to B, some observer at C could see you arrive before
> you depart, leading to all sorts of nasty time-travel paradoxes.
>
> However, imagine that I'm in a Type-A in orbit about Earth. At what
> point in space are the signals emitted and reflected by my ship
> attenuated to such a degree that they become indistinguishable from
> the background? Wouldn't this then alleviate the paradoxes provided I
> jumped at least twice that distance - so that from any given point in
> space I could be detected either departing or arriving but no observer
> could ever see me do both?
>
> Or have I got that totally wrong? Am I just talking out of my rectal
> orifice?
>
> David Shaw

I don't see any sort of time travel or other paradoxes being created by
how Traveller handles "FTL" travel.  Jumpspace isn't normal space, it's
something else, and the drive takes the ship and just enough of ourspace
with it (a bubble, grid, whatever) to maintain reality during the
duration of the jump.  For the time spent in J-space, the ship, its
contents, and the "bubble" aren't in this reality.

IMO, of course.

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