Silly questions...

[Duke]

OK all you physicists out there. Time to remind me why I was a biology major and not a physical sciences major.

Would it be possible, rather than fully entering jump space, to "walk the tightrope" between jumpspace and realspace, thus allowing rapid travel for short distances (say across a star system above the plane of orbits, beyond the gravity wells) thus reducing the travel time across a system.
Or am I misinterpreting the nature of jump space?
I thought someone did an essay on jumpspace in one of the periodicals, but I can't find it.

While I am at it, is there anything (other than a power source) that would prevent a physical structure from remaining in jump space indefinitely?

And while I'm showing my ignorance, didn't Tesla claim to have a way of "projecting" energy in order to remotely power devices? Kind of a precursor to the power projection used by the aliens in "Independence Day" to power their fighters?

When you stop laughing, I'd like to hear how far off base I am.

 

[aramis]

Not as it's currently constructed for game purposes...

I'm NOT a physicist...

But, that being said, Jspace is at least 6 (probably 36) layers deep. The jump drive system pops one into J-Space, and one "precipitates" out, that is, whatever charge allowed you entry fails to keep you there, with a nominal time of 168 hours.

One's J-space course (and decay) are set before entry, and nothing but the proximity of objects at the far end in time & space affects it. (It would seem that there is a minority who use MWM's jump masking rules for mid-jump as well, such that the parabola must be over a clear n-space route.) ANd apparently nothing short of destruction of the J-Drive system or the ship itself will prevent precipitation.

We also know that material exiting the J-space bubble ceases to maintain atomic cohesion... in short, it disintigrates to the border line.

As for Tesla...yes. He did. Yes, it apparently works. It's been profiled recently online... I'll try to remember where I fount the link.

We know from canon that not all ships come out; those that don't have occasionally been seen, both ghostly in N-Space, and as "impossible" encounters in J-space.

 

[Spinward Scout]

And while I'm showing my ignorance, didn't Tesla claim to have a way of "projecting" energy in order to remotely power devices? Kind of a precursor to the power projection used by the aliens in "Independence Day" to power their fighters?

Yeah, he did. He'd walk around his lab holding on to fluorescent lights lit up, but not connected to any power source. The problem is, and it's the same reason they don't have schools underneath power lines anymore, is that they think it causes leukemia. If you ever get a chance, read up on Tesla. He was a genius, but lost a 'science war' with Thomas Edison. Edison discredited him so Edison's theories would take precedent. Basically a fight over AC power and DC power.