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Originally Posted by peter noble
Re the Galactica's Tylium Conversion Drive. Presumably it converts the Tylium into energy that drives the Galactica into the tramline then.
Is Tylium a radioactive ore?
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Not likely.
Exotic matter;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_matter
Wormholes;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
Tylium would not be matter as we understand it to work.
We wouldn't even
see it.
Instead it would most likely correspond to dark matter;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
It would possibly act as a microwormhole inflater so that you could enter that "tramline" invented by Larry Nivem and Jerry Pournelle and used in their novel "The Mote in God's Eye".
The inportant thing to note here is that, your Viper patrol is looking for "flat space" with a slightly positive curvature as opposed to our realspace which has a slightly negative curvature topologically speaking.
The Tylium itself is either a negative mass lens for manipulating or is converted into dark energy to morph the topology to your requirement(You add to the summit of the bump in the visualized analogy);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
Imagine it to be like you are an ant looking for a bump in the saddle. Once you find the bump, you can see another bump close by and jump to it avoiding the hillsides and valley between the bumps' crests. You use Tylium(pronounced TIE-LEE-UM) to do this.
That explanation(visualization of how it works by analogy) is just(barely plausible)within the realm of real physics.
Hope that helps
