It just struck me - watching Brad Wright’s Travelers for the third time - that even though we might not have developed light sabers or faster than light drives or teleportation devices yet, we might already have all the components or ingredients or raw materials “laying around” and the only thing standing between us and technological advancement is the knowledge on how to assemble and them the correct way.
Aaand while writing this I realized what an oversimplification this is. We not only had to learn how to assemble materials in order to invent, say, batteries but we also had to understand electricity and how to manipulate it.
So, never mind. 😂
There are a lot of fundamental laws of physics that totally break if you allow the possibility of FTL transport (at least as we understand them).
We need to intensify our understanding.
People thought it was impossible to get trains to go above some weird speed limit because the air would get sucked out of our lungs because of the pressure difference created via Bernoulli’s principle.