Quote: "Which is easier, peddling a bike up a cliff or up a gradual hill?"
I could have swornt hat I learned in physics class that it took just as much work to go straight up a hill, as opposed to walking up it at a smaller incline. By the time you reach the same altitude, the amount of work done is equivalent. I think the real question is, do you want to do the work over the course of 5 minutes, or 5 seconds? Apparently we chose the 5 second route, because we're just impatient like that.
@Grog:
The theory itself poses danger. To test it out in a lab on earth isn't just as dangerous as trying to make mini blackholes. You'd be talking about testing the theory of slipping into another dimension, a place we don't even know is real, let alone if it would be a suitable location for animals (or even matter itself) to reside.
Best place to do that kind of work, in my eyes, is in space. But, hey, I'm talking out of my nose here. For all I know, they're already doing it. I mean, that article was written in 2006, stating it could be achieveable "in 5 years"...
~Plystire
Only those who sow the seeds of their desires will reap their benefits later.
However, I have seeds of my own to tend to. I don't have time to be someone else's watering can.
