@CyanLightning
If warp is possible, it is very, very likely either
A) it won’t be anything like Alcubierre’s model of it, or
B) it won’t require those stupendous amounts of energy,
Probably both.
And it’s still an “if”. I, personally, think it is rather likely, but it would be unfair for me not to admit we really don’t know for sure.
As for wormholes, those are good questions we really don’t know. Well - except we know you can stretch up patches of spacetime with negative energy - whatever that is.
@Assertive Derpness
Because we believe in an intrinsic value to actual reality, and doing what you suggest means essentially burying our heads in the sand against the challenges we must face for our own survival.
Basically, metaphorically burying our heads in the sand until we die of dehydration.
Without taking the time and effort to solve our problems instead of running from them, we will die because our backs will be turned.
Just because you don’t see yourself in a world with a declining population, failing infrastructure, or political instability, does not mean that world does not exist.
Declining population because why date when you could spend years with a simulated wife?
Political instability because people don’t resolve conflicts, they just avoid them and retreat to echo chambers instead of engaging people (oh, hello, modern politics), and others avoid it entirely, and
Failing infrastructure in the latest stages where people are spending so much time in virtual paradise the economy falls apart…
Dang, just thinking of the issues this can cause paints a frighteningly similar picture to the real state of the world… where video games and online forums basically do exactly what you suggest - allow people to escape reality like never before…
