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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] I didn't say the theory of relativity is fundamentally untrue, just that even the bloke that came up with it wasn't 100% satisfied it accounted for everything. In short, we don't know everything yet, so it's a fluid concept, not exactly set in stone. As for gravity, anyone who watched B5 will know there's no reason to invent gravity generators just to get around production limitations. Just design ships with rotating sections - yes, I know they have at least one already - point is there's a conscious decision to make Colonial tech a little more advanced than we're currently capable of. That includes FTL, Artificial Gravity, glowing spines, magical Tylium juice and whatever they use to power those big arse sublight engines. We won't know for certain until we see the new Caprica series, but I suspect the colonies underwent a bit of a technological regression as a result of the Cylon war, at lest in terms of automation so we have a somewhat skewed perspective of their technology with a 40 year old Battlestar that seams to have been intentionally "dumbed down". The fact is, this is a civilisation that was crossing interstellar distances millennia before they created the Cylons. For all we know the scientific know-how behind the jump drives may have been all but forgotten. The drives they're running now could very well be just copies of the original drive from the Kobol "Galleon" and while they know how to build new ones and basically how they work they may not actually understand WHY they work. Since that ship was apparantly made by "Gods" (who or whatever they might have been) you can easily say they were just REALLY advanced and invoke Clarke's Third Law. There are a few precedents for this in "hard" sci-fi. For example; the Holtzman effect from the Dune books is used to account for most of the "magical" tech (Foldspace, Shields & Suspensors) while it was stated that know-one actually knew how it all worked despite the fact the civilisation had been using it for more than 10,000 years. Also the Jumpgates in B5 are said to have already been there when all the current races first got out into space and none of them knew exactly how they worked, but were able to replicate them. One assumes the Vorlons were responsible, but they never owned up or asked for patent rights, so who knows. The Stargate Universe is based on exactly the same conceit with ancient and magical technology just left lying around all over the place. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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