This is intriguing.
A Starship Enterprise-style warp drive could be a real possibility, according to a non-profit group of scientists and engineers.
Computer models have shown that it's theoretically possible to achieve faster than light travel by warping spacetime in a bubble around a starship - exploiting a loophole in Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
See the rest here
http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/66234-ftl-drive-is-feasible-says-nasa-scientist
Going where no dork has gone before . . .
Sounds more like the Spacing Guild in Dune. The book said they folded space-time to reduce distances between locations.
Is Zefrem Cochrane a member of this group?
I believe the ion engine can at least achieve it.
JoeyM wrote: Sounds more like the Spacing Guild in Dune. The book said they folded space-time to reduce distances between locations.
Thats how I would figure it would work.
Suppose all three spacial dimensions were a sheet of paper that had two dots on the same side of the sheet but on opposite ends. The quickest way would not be a straight line but actually folding the sheet of paper physically touching the dots together would be the quickest way.
I am sure you are already familiar with that idea, and the popular nomenclature is "wormholes".
So friggin awesome!!!! That is so cool!! I volunteer to go to another planet!
4cylndrfury wrote:
That chick is not only hot, but her videos are pretty funny.
It's just warping spacetime. Really, how hard could that be?
"There are no tidal forces inside the bubble, no undue issues, and the proper acceleration is zero. When you turn the field on, everybody doesn’t go slamming against the bulkhead, which would be a very short and sad trip."
How cool is that?!
If warp drive is possible then how soon will we be able to say "Beam me up Scotty"?
carguy123 wrote: If warp drive is possible then how soon will we be able to say "Beam me up Scotty"?
Never, unfortunately. The Uncertainty Principle dictates that one can never know the exact position and velocity of sub atomic particles. Since beaming is a dissolution of all atomic particles into energy waveforms, (according to one theory) we would never be able to reassemble the particles exactly as they were because we wouldn't be able to determine where they were.
Sure its theoretically possible, but does anyone have any idea how to create the bubble?
PHeller wrote: Sure its theoretically possible, but does anyone have any idea how to create the bubble?
THAT is the issue. Sure they can think it up, the practical application is another story.
Anti-stance wrote:4cylndrfury wrote:That chick is not only hot, but her videos are pretty funny.
Agreed.
Anti-stance wrote:PHeller wrote: Sure its theoretically possible, but does anyone have any idea how to create the bubble?THAT is the issue. Sure they can think it up, the practical application is another story.
Basically you're warping space by creating a huge gravimetric field on the fabric of space then traveling over that indentation. It has been speculated as being possible to do for a number of years but you'd need an energy source much greater than what a fission or fusion reactor can produce (think quantum zero point energy tap.) I'd bet my money on wormhole generation before building that energy source though.
Ever see Event Horizon?
Appleseed wrote: Ever see Event Horizon?
Yes, that was one seriously creepy movie.
PHeller wrote: Sure its theoretically possible, but does anyone have any idea how to create the bubble?
In reply to pilotbraden:
I've read that Roddenberry had actually been talking to some of the first physicists to discuss the hypothesis, and that's actually how "Warp Drive" was put in the show.
Yeah, the 'warp drive' warped (duh) space/time. Just like these guys are talking about.
Wormholes are an offshoot of 'string theory'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
Theoretically, they allow instantaneous travel between the ends of the wormhole, which could be vast distances apart. I read a description of them as going 'all the way around in a straight line'.
Appleseed wrote: Ever see Event Horizon?
Beat me to it and exactly what they are describing
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