Davinc.it - Space-Time Fabric

💎 — Space-Time Fabric : a playground for grown up

Translated from « Archipel de pensées » 2018

In this note, I present a way for intelligent species to exploit space-time distortions. Mostly at the reach of an advanced civilization, this idea have one particularity: the voluntary displacement of all or some of the members of this civilisation out of the gravitational influence of massive celestial objects, such as black holes, or nearby.

Time and space deforms itself as exposed in the general theory of relativity in 1916 by Albert Einstein. Firstly, space and time must be conceived as a single entity. Then, the theory of general relativity shows that space-time curves according to the existing mass, which implies that gravity influences the flow of time. For example, a hypermassive star or a black hole, which are extremely massive celestial objects, bends the flow of time. Finally, the more massive the object, the more space-time curves and the slower the time flows (see images below). Thus, being near a black hole would considerably slow down the flow of time compared — or relatively — to an individual on Earth (at the edge of the blavk hole you will age much less faster).

Therefore, general relativity theory has a major implication : the presence of a differential in the flow of time between two points located in the universe depending on the mass located at these places. In a place where the gravitational influence of a celestial object is strong, the flow of time is slowed down — and in opposition, in a place located outside of any gravitational influence, the flow of time is much faster.

Following this note main idea, an advanced civilization may choose to get out of any massive celestial object such as a hypermassive star or a black hole, to position colonies outside any gravitational influence : like intergalactic void. As time in these colonies located outside the gravitational well will flows faster compared to their original system, this civilization could placce technological research centers or huge factories there, implying a comparitevely — or relatively — much, faster research and production.

These interests could be the following :

Calculation of an infinite number of decimals of the number Pi ;
Calculation of the largest possible prime integer ;
Hosting of a computer simulation ;
Production of a fleet of ships ;
Mass production of goods with long production time.

As time flows faster outside the gravitational well of a hypermassive star or more a black hole — or truly the whole galaxy — the time required for research, or production, would be greatly reduced compared to this same action carried out in the original system (located near a star). Relative time makes the same research at the heart of the gravitational much longer inside it than outside it.

To intelligently use space-time dilation at a civilization scale, you have to :

Put yourself outside of any gravitational attraction to accelerate mass production or advanced research by placing infrastructures there.
Put yourself near a gravity hole, to guarantee a relative longevity to the members of the civilization located at its edge.

Through this exploitation of time dilatation, the results will therefore be obtained comparatively faster than if these same projects had been undertaken nearby the gravitational influence of a massive celestial object. If the time taken to repatriate the production always justifies the realization of this complex process, this type of approach represents an obvious interest for an advanced civilization. Exploitation or research activities could be carried out by Von Neumann probes (self-replicating machines) — to prevent some of the members of this civilization from living less longer, relatively speaking. Although, the question of communication and exchange between the two points is still open.

➠ Implications

For humankind, this possibility implies that even if we may be far from a common meeting up Schelling point, we may be closer to "gravitational-voids" — or intergalactic space — to conduct faster production or research.
This also implies that somewhere in the Universe exists the "most-free of gravitational influence" physical point — or the fastest for research.

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