Series Ⅲ · the shadow · finaletrope 7 of 7 · after Asimov
● T R O P E V I I — the last, pulled from Nemesis
T H E L E A P
SUPERLUMINAL
✦ the drive that collapses the dark — and its price
near-light is real and costs you time; faster-than-light is fiction and costs you cause
the measurement — the light barrier and the crossing
speed 0.50 c
a 2-light-year trip · push toward c: ship-time shrinks but energy explodes · past c is off the map of physics
the price — the broken light-cone
sublight worldlines stay inside the cone (cause before effect) · an FTL path leaves it — and in some frame, arrives before it left
the book — the drive that ended the isolation