Warp Drive Might Actually Be Possible
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Whooo! Let's tear open a hole in reality! I've got my thumpin' stick and I'm ready to whack some orcs!
Even if it works, they're just going to send something into an unknown 'distance' from when/where it was sent. We can bend space/time but once we tear it, we can only improvise. In all honesty, try moving everything except the target object. At least then if it works we'll all still be in relative existence with one another if something goes wrong.
Want. Want want want want; so much freaking want!
Get us the hell out of this solar system, scientists! Screw the risks!
Get us the hell out of this solar system, scientists! Screw the risks!
That would be bad. And this is an election year. I won't know where to cast my vote when when we start getting our politicians in the wrong dimensions:Greg Tito said:
To quote the esteemed professor Hubert J. Farnsworth:
'Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it.'
'Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it.'
Holy shit, first they find the Higgs Boson, then they land a motherfucking SUV on Mars, and now they're "perturbing" space-time with the hopes of developing FTL-drives. Science is really kicking ass these days.
All we need to do is polarise the tachyon grid and channel all power to the deflector array. That should perturb SOMETHING, surely?Syzygy23 said:
Fingers crossed we get this thing working before we all starve and kill each other over ideology and water ^_^
I recall reading somewhere that they were estimating something in the region of 10c (Ten times the speed of light) unfortunately I can't remember exactly where I read this but I did work out that it would give you a one way trip to alpha centauri in something like 120 days (Again approximate figures I lost all my working and accurate answer in a crash right after I worked it out).Neofishie said:
Interesting news. I'm sure that physics has already explained that there is little danger in that particular experiment, but the general public is not wrong to be sceptical. The danger of nuclear war did not stop scientists testing atomic reactions, and we still came close to that really happening during certain missile crises. Let's hope that this won't lead to more war and terror for the human race. On the surface at least though, it is a cool discovery.
The world economy as it is is sadly built around exploiting that starving side, and that includes science as well. Such sacrifice is made for theories. One can only hope that some day, these theories can somehow help those of us starving and killing each other to stop. To me, that's as important, nay, more important, than getting to other stars.
Let's try to make this world as good a place as it can be, -before- we try to go ruin other places. That at least makes sense.
No kidding. It is sad that one part of the Earth is making all of these amazing discoveries due to abundant wealth (while the same section of the planet is complaining about a "recession"), and the other part is starving and dangerous.Wicky_42 said:
The world economy as it is is sadly built around exploiting that starving side, and that includes science as well. Such sacrifice is made for theories. One can only hope that some day, these theories can somehow help those of us starving and killing each other to stop. To me, that's as important, nay, more important, than getting to other stars.
Let's try to make this world as good a place as it can be, -before- we try to go ruin other places. That at least makes sense.
No, the actual FTL is handwaved completely, since mass-alteration couldn't accomplish it. We have massless particles in our universe already - photons and gluons - and those always travel at the speed of light. So, a spacecraft with a rest mass of zero would essentially move 300,000 km/s, no more, no less. While that would be very useful (heck, removing even half the mass would be an amazing achievement for space travel), it would only get you to the nearest star in 4.5 years.Agow95 said:
Regarding the FTL, they just mutter something about "mass-free bubbles where the subjective speed of light is higher", which makes no sense.
i heard that a few guys in an italian university came out with their own FTL hypothesis. not sure if it was based on white's stuff or alcubierre's designs but they were saying the amount of power needed would be E=mc^2 if m was the mass of Jupiter. that may be the "impractical" he was talking about XD
on a side note; this is very exciting news for someone who's about to start a theorhetical physics coures at university
on a side note; this is very exciting news for someone who's about to start a theorhetical physics coures at university
Something similar to generating your own wormholes then. I like this.
As for the pwoer requirements. well you have to remember that there are still two huge untapped energy sources that we have. which is: helium3, which is suppsoedly 100 times more powerful than atomic plants we have now, and starts, which we dont have the technology for yet and probably wont for a while, but if we can take solar flares and use them to generate energy we could easily have enough energy to make warp drive jump 100+ times.
As for the pwoer requirements. well you have to remember that there are still two huge untapped energy sources that we have. which is: helium3, which is suppsoedly 100 times more powerful than atomic plants we have now, and starts, which we dont have the technology for yet and probably wont for a while, but if we can take solar flares and use them to generate energy we could easily have enough energy to make warp drive jump 100+ times.
H'okay, guys, don't get too excited. If you read the articles, they say this requires "exotic matter." Which probably doesn't exist, by the way. It basically means matter that isn't made up of your usual protons, neutrons, and electrons. Nothing we build now or in the foreseeable future can actually pull off this kind of FTL trick, because we just don't know what we'd ever build it out of.