English word senses marked with topical category "Faster-than-light travel"

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• Alcubierre drive (Noun) A hypothetical means of faster-than-light propulsion, based on the controlled contraction and expansion of surrounding space.
• Alcubierre metric (Noun) A type of spacetime metric. See warp bubble.
• EPR telephone (Noun) A method of transmission of information non-locally, allowing FTL communication and back-in-time communication, through application of Steven Weinberg's proposed non-linear fields in quantum physics on entangled particles, accessing hidden variables of the Schrödinger equation.
• EPR=ER (Noun) Alternative form of ER=EPR
• ER=EPR (Noun) A conjecture equating the effects of quantum entanglement (EPR) with a wormhole (ER) connection between the entangled particles, relating quantum physics to spacetime physics.
• Einstein-Rosen bridge (Noun) A type of wormhole that is inherently unstable and collapses before any information or matter can pass through.
• FTL (Noun) Initialism of faster-than-light.
• FTL (Adjective) Initialism of faster-than-light.
• Roman ring (Noun) A configuration of wormholes where for each individual wormhole the time difference across its mouths is such that it may not allow a closed timelike curve.
• ansible (Noun) A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.
• antitelephone (Noun) A hypothetical device, used in thought experiments on causality, that could be used to send signals into one's own past.
• apparate (Verb) To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place.
• beam up (Verb) To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
• blink (Verb) To teleport, mostly for short distances.
• chronoportation (Noun) Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (and possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.
• faster than light (Adjective) Alternative form of faster-than-light (see usage note on said article).
• faster-than-light (Adjective) Faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe.
• hyper (Noun) Clipping of hyperspace.
• hyperdrive (Noun) A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering hyperspace.
• hyperjump (Noun) A jump that transports some physical object immediately from one place to another, as by a hyperdrive or jump drive.
• hyperlight (Adjective) Faster than light speed.
• hyperspace (Noun) An n-dimensional Euclidian space with n > 3.
• hyperspace (Noun) A Euclidian space of unspecified dimension.
• hyperspace (Noun) A notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.
• hyperspace (Verb) To travel or transport into hyperspace.
• hyperspace drive (Noun) a hypothetical propulsion system for spacecraft that would "warp" spacetime
• hyperspatial (Adjective) Pertaining to hyperspace.
• hypertravel (Noun) travel through hyperspace
• jump (Noun) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• jump drive (Noun) A means of travelling faster than light by jumping from one point to another in space.
• jumpgate (Noun) A fictional device able to create an Einstein-Rosen bridge portal (or wormhole), allowing fast travel between two points in space.
• jumpship (Noun) A spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.
• jumpspace (Noun) Hyperspace.
• kilolight (Noun) a unit of distance equal to one thousand light-years; a kilolight-year
• light barrier (Noun) The speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.
• quantum entanglement (Noun) A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.
• quantum teleportation (Noun) the instantaneous transference of a quantum state to a distant location using quantum entanglement and the transmission of classical information
• spindizzy (Noun) An anti-gravity propulsion system capable of faster-than-light travel, powered by the hypothetical Blackett effect.
• stargate (Noun) A hypothetical device consisting of a traversable portal (typically a wormhole) that can send one to another location light years away nearly instantaneously.
• subether (Noun) A fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel.
• supercee (Noun) Faster-than-light travelling speed.
• superlight (Adjective) faster-than-light, FTL; Faster than light speed (“c”).
• superlumic (Adjective) faster-than-light; having a speed greater than light.
• superluminal (Adjective) Faster than light; having a speed greater than light.
• superluminality (Noun) The quality or condition of being superluminal.
• superluminally (Adverb) In a superluminal manner; faster than the speed of light.
• tachyon (Noun) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
• tachyonic (Adjective) Of or relating to a tachyon or tachyons.
• tachyonic antitelephone (Noun) Synonym of antitelephone
• telebooth (Noun) A booth from which one can teleport to another location.
• telepad (Noun) A platform on which a person or object is placed in order to be teleported elsewhere.
• teleport (Noun) Synonym of teleporter (“science fiction device”)
• teleportal (Noun) A teleporter; a device for instantaneous travel.
• teleportation (Noun) Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.
• teleporter (Noun) A device used for teleporting.
• teletransport (Verb) Alternative form of teleport
• teletransportation (Noun) Alternative form of teleportation
• teletransporter (Noun) A teleportation device.
• transmat (Noun) A teleporter; a fictional device that transfers/transmits matter from one location to another without the object traversing the intervening distance as itself.
• transmat (Verb) To teleport; to (cause to) travel via transmat device.
• transporter (Noun) One who, or that which transports.; A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object.
• ultrawave (Noun) A type of radiation, often described as allowing for faster-than-light communication.
• vworp (Interjection) Representing the sound made by teleporting or dematerialising/rematerialising.
• warp (Verb) To move:; To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
• warp bubble (Noun) A detached region of spacetime which is theoretically capable of moving faster than the speed of light.
• warp drive (Noun) A technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner.
• warp factor (Noun) A hypothetical figure indicating a space vessel's speed greater than the speed of light.
• warp speed (Noun) A hypothetical, extremely rapid, speed, resulting from entering a separate dimension, termed hyperspace; much faster than the speed of light.
• warpfield (Noun) A field associated with the warping of spacetime
• wormhole (Noun) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

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