Semi-OT: A General Tech Question Thread for me :)

[El_Phil]

Well hunpecked the thing is if 'warp points' are just wormholes then your still probably OK in modern science. As long as you dont go FTL locally during your trip through the warp point your OK it's 'just' a distorion in the local spacetime.

Still its a nifty theory.

Are Gravitons really generally accepted? There was me thinking it was just part of the attempt at transfering quantum mechanics to gravity. There are many other quantum theories of gravity that involve no gravitons. I'm not saying they don't exist, similar quantum theories work in many other fields. But existing quantum graviton theorys are nastily convuluted, contrvied and internally inconsistent at the moment. Of course they could straighten out, or the correct theory could be that convoluted.

Still with gravity being mass, momentum and energy, taking Einstein's theory of gravitation as right of course, it doesn't matter what particle does the work, you still need those three to get gravity. Just because you can put a name to something does mean you can create it easier.

Why is this? Gravitons are just messenger particles, they don't create the force they just pass it on. So to create the gravitons you have to create the force, so you have to create that much gravity which is no real net gain. Or that is my understanding anyway.