I still can't figure out how White's gonna make a warp bubble to test on! Anyone know what's gong on with his experiment?
Any method of traveling faster than light will probably involve dividing by 0.
To get the required energy, all you'd need to do is either obtain dark-matter, or fly through the sun with some super solar-power chargers, and some big ass batteries. No biggie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czNxV8wZSnc?t=1m33s
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The first "warp drive" I believe humanity will invent will probably take advantage of the Higgs mechanism; (i.e. reducing the interaction of an object with the Higgs field to allow it to violate mass restrictions it would otherwise have). In the very far future.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
How much further could ideas like this go if we put more money and effort into them, instead of feeding Shawanda's 10 kids.
It's a whopping...0.3%? something stupidly low anyway. People arguing from a point of pure ignorance and others people's opinions can't be swayed. It's like trying to fill a cup that has no bottom.
I remember reading an article mentioning something about any vessel going faster than the speed of light by warping space, totally obliterating whatever was nearby (in solar terms) due to a build-up of particles of somesort in front of the vessel, which are then all released at once when it enters normal space again. I can't for the life of me find it though.
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It's always been Wankershim!
My Brand!
Right here, if you can understand anything of that. If I recall there is sum up at the end that is understandable.
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-cont...ised-final.pdf
Crappy copy+paste...The region of space behind a super-
luminally travelling warp bubble is almost entirely de-
void of forward travelling particles, however it contains
a sparse distribution of particles with greatly reduced
energy. Meanwhile the region of space infront of a ship
decelerating from superluminal velocity to subluminal ve-
locity is blasted with a concentrated beam of extremely
high energy particles.
These results suggest that any ship using an Alcu-
bierre warp drive carrying people would need shielding
to protect them from potential dangerously blueshifted
particles during the journey, and any people at the des-
tination would be gamma ray and high energy particle
blasted into oblivion due to the extreme blueshifts for
P+ region particles.
That's the one! Cheers Morae. I'm having trouble getting Acrobat Reader to work from my new SSD so I couldn't read half of the articles in the links to verify it was what I thought it was, but I recognise that summary you've posted.
There are so many dangers with space travel that even going faster than light wouldn't be enough. The effects on our bodies from being in space are numerous, especially from radiation. Big breakthroughs are often only made possible from many smaller ones though, and we are always reading about awesome stuff being developed that could support the big ones.
And I just noticed that what I asked was already mentioned earlier in the thread. Sorry!
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It's always been Wankershim!
My Brand!
The problem with going faster than light is that this isn't star trek. There's no "plot a course mr. sulu" warp 7, engage!
They will go in a straight line, incredibly fast, and even the tiniest piece of debris at that speed will become a bullet fired from a universal gun 500,000 more powerful than anything known to man. A rock the size of a pea would tear apart a ship at that speed.
Apply blizzards model to any other subscription service,you'd be outraged:
Netflix adds no new movies for a year, you click a new movie, there's a $5 fee.
You're in an accident, click your onstar button, but there's an addition $20 fee for them to help.
You turn on your tv only to find all you get are the infomercial channels. Every other show is pay per view.
See how dumb that model is?
I've taken multiple physics courses. I understand the difference between centripetal and centrifugal force. Centrifugal force is a "fake" force if you're looking at it from an inertial reference point. From a reference point within the rotational system, however, you'll see there is a centrifugal force. It's similar to the Coriolis force.