
Hey - that's more original than usual.
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle came up with a rather better version than usual of an old friend for The Mote In God's Eye. It involved an "as-yet undiscovered" fifth force and lines of potential between stars. Kind of like the wormhole method, but the transition had to be invoked.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |