r/SciFiConcepts • u/SAM_THE_S-A-M • 7h ago
Question I'm writing a hard sci-fi novel, its extremely far future (14000AD) and i want to be able to have the protagonists travel interstellar. Whats my limit on leniency with regards to general relativity?
So as the title says - I'm writing this novel for which I've done all sorts of research, into theoretical FTL travel mostly with the use of Einstein-Rosen bridges.
Ive explored most of the ways we can fathom how they would work, and they face huge limitations given that both sides of the wormhole must be opened by a gate, you cant just cast a wormhole into open space.
But then there's the theoretical existence of microscopic quantum foam wormholes, which are everywhere in space, or at least common enough to always be close to something.
I would like my more advances faction to have identified how to target, connect to and enlarge these micro wormholes using immense amounts of energy, negative energy and computing power. Simply because I cant see my novel evolving without this allowance.
So I ask, to the hard-core hard sci-fi fans out there, is this an acceptable rule breakage for the narrative to work?
Edit: I am not talking about accelerating a ship beyond 1c. wormholes themselves do not violate the laws of general relativity.