Having spent most of my life helping to create things that didn’t exist before and that people now can’t live without, I think it’s pretty clear you need both: imagination to help you figure out where “B” is (or which “B” you’re interested in visiting), and logic to help you get there..Imagination has already suggested how we might get to the stars without violating Einstein’s limit (“186,000 miles per second—not just a good idea, IT’S THE LAW”): ever see the musical “Brigadoon”? About the town that sleeps for a hundred years and then wakes up for a day? It’s probably possible (at least it doesn’t violate any absolute natural laws). And in such a town (or planet, or on such a space ship), an 80-year human lifespan would last something close to 3 million years of outside time… enough to cross the entire Milky Way galaxy 30 times in a ship puttering along at a mere 10 percent of the speed of light (something DARPA’s already talking about how to achieve)..I suspect somebody’s already written a sci-fi story about this…
Having spent most of my life helping to create things that didn’t exist before and that people now can’t live without, I think it’s pretty clear you need both: imagination to help you figure out where “B” is (or which “B” you’re interested in visiting), and logic to help you get there..Imagination has already suggested how we might get to the stars without violating Einstein’s limit (“186,000 miles per second—not just a good idea, IT’S THE LAW”): ever see the musical “Brigadoon”? About the town that sleeps for a hundred years and then wakes up for a day? It’s probably possible (at least it doesn’t violate any absolute natural laws). And in such a town (or planet, or on such a space ship), an 80-year human lifespan would last something close to 3 million years of outside time… enough to cross the entire Milky Way galaxy 30 times in a ship puttering along at a mere 10 percent of the speed of light (something DARPA’s already talking about how to achieve)..I suspect somebody’s already written a sci-fi story about this…