[TML] Thoughts on wormholes

[Richard Aiken]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
>    So then I thought: what if the energy to open up the hole weren't that
> bad, nor the time to traverse the hole.  Then instead of looking for a hole
> that goes right where you want, look for the 1st one going a significant
> distance in the right general direction.  Go through it, and do the same
> again.  Sure, it would be a sort of random walk, but as long as you pick
> holes heading the right way, it'll still get you arbitrarily close!

Maybe that's what jump does.  Which is why there's a (somewhat)
variable time and location.  It's hunting-and-pecking through millions
(billions?  trillions?) of short wormholes.

-- 
Richard Aiken

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