If instead of warping through the space of our 3D Universe, you traversed through a different, additional dimension, you could connect two disparate locations almost instantaneously. mouth moving relativistically relative to the other, observers at either traversible end would have aged by vastly different amounts. If you created a wormhole between two points in space, with one. Even if these spores were quantum mechanically entangled, they could not be used to teleport matter, or even to communicate faster-than-light.Īlthough it might be a fun sci-fi idea, the science behind it is untenable.
The problem is that mycelium is an advanced form of life that required billions of years of evolution on Earth before existing it could not have arisen in other solar systems, galaxies, or universes. The original paper that contended this was debunked here and here. But animals cannot do horizontal gene transfer only bacteria can.
spores, they had no idea it could actually hold the key to traveling faster than even warp drive would allow.
When the crew of Star Trek: Discovery were first learning about the Tardigrade and the mycelium.
