Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: December 12, 2024, 2:13 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
FTL
#1
FTL
It's more possible than you think.

http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-rev...ip-designs

Nothing travels faster than light. 'Tis true.

But space-time can move however fast it wants.

Warp the fabric of time and space around you. No propulsion necessary.

I mean obviously there's problems; mass-energy issues. If we solved that, we'd have perpetual motion...which thermodynamics doesn't exactly allow.

But hey, if we can fuck with the very fabric of reality...

Who's to say we can't break a few rules, eh?
Reply
#2
RE: FTL
Unless tampering with the fabric of reality might upset the apple cart, EVERYWHERE and EVERYWHEN.
Reply
#3
RE: FTL
Remember ice nine.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
Reply
#4
RE: FTL
And the supernova bomb from Krikkit . .
Reply
#5
RE: FTL
...These guys have never seen Event Horizon, have they?

Still, great advance... if it works.
The truth is absolute. Life forms are specks of specks (...) of specks of dust in the universe.
Why settle for normal, when you can be so much more? Why settle for something, when you can have everything?

[Image: LB_Header_Idea_A.jpg]
Reply
#6
RE: FTL
(June 12, 2014 at 1:53 pm)One Above All Wrote: great advance... if it works.
(partial quote)

But... BUT! Wouldn't we be going backward rather than advancing? Thinking
Reply
#7
RE: FTL
(June 12, 2014 at 1:55 pm)ShaMan Wrote: But... BUT! Wouldn't we be going backward rather than advancing? Thinking

Backward relative to what? :S
The truth is absolute. Life forms are specks of specks (...) of specks of dust in the universe.
Why settle for normal, when you can be so much more? Why settle for something, when you can have everything?

[Image: LB_Header_Idea_A.jpg]
Reply
#8
RE: FTL
I've seen this sort of thing before, about shifting an area of spacetime containing a spacecraft rather than the vehicle itself. As I recall, one of the minor drawbacks mentioned at the time was the immense power requirements, something like a single burst of energy greater than all the energy generated in human history. Apparently, such a release of energy would likely vaporise the Earth and probably the Sun as well.

I suspect - and hope - that all these stumbling blocks are overcome, within my lifetime for preference.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
Reply
#9
RE: FTL
Quantum entanglement?

I don't think you can travel faster than something that is virtually instantaneous.
Reply
#10
RE: FTL
I do note that FTL is by implication not instantaneous.

I'm not sure the objections to violating relativity etc. etc. etc., would apply to a transportation scheme that was instantaneous.


Not that that helps actually do it.



I'll go fetch some Legos . . . . .
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Debate on FTL Neutrinos hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson NoMoreFaith 1 1837 March 20, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Last Post: Categories+Sheaves



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)