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FTL Warp Drive, Somebody's Been Watching To Much Sar Trek..

I've seen the idea proposed before. I think the general idea is that the ship technically doesn't move, you just move the universe around it. If you can imagine having a rock in a sock and then holding the rock still and moving the sock around it. you can get the rock anywhere you want it by moving the sock around.

I don't know if it's possible to do that with the universe, but either way, you'll need a hell of a lot of energy to really try it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory makes a bit more sense as a theory that allows for hyperdrive. http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200.

I like the Heim theory better because it has predicted masses of a few particles pretty accurately.

But being that I'm not trained in any of this, I'll leave it to the experts.
 
In principle there is nothing incorrect with a ship sitting at the center of a flat space, surrounded by a warp bubble(or more). The energy requirements can be steep, but the correct geometry can reduce it drastically. I wlll not claim an experiment can be done at this time, but much later in the future...,
 
I've seen the idea proposed before. I think the general idea is that the ship technically doesn't move, you just move the universe around it. If you can imagine having a rock in a sock and then holding the rock still and moving the sock around it. you can get the rock anywhere you want it by moving the sock around.

I don't know if it's possible to do that with the universe, but either way, you'll need a hell of a lot of energy to really try it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory makes a bit more sense as a theory that allows for hyperdrive. http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200.

I like the Heim theory better because it has predicted masses of a few particles pretty accurately.

But being that I'm not trained in any of this, I'll leave it to the experts.


I think if we put some effort into it we could either make a FTL type system or find out more about the universe, both worthy goals.
 
"hermetry forms" or multidimensional structures of space ....

Yikes, and they didn't even mention the 12 negitive dimensions aka the Mirror Universes...




I give up.... let's start over.

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K'riq
 
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1) Interesting, nothing really new here, but its nice that physicists are still plugging away at it.

2) It's too much. "Too", not "to".


Marian
 
1) Interesting, nothing really new here, but its nice that physicists are still plugging away at it.

2) It's too much. "Too", not "to".


Marian

I think the idea of the bubble is very Alcubierre-ish. The formulae behind it may be different, but the idea is very reminescent of it.
 
Re: FTL Warp Drive, Somebody's Been Watching To Much Star Trek..

2) It's too much. "Too", not "to".


Marian



Noted. Funny you didn't nitpick about the missing T in the title, too...






ximotly,

K'riq Sa
Minister of the Church of Erased Algorithms
 
Re: FTL Warp Drive, Somebody's Been Watching To Much Star Trek..

So it should read:

Yeah, we made up a theory that duplicates what Rodenberry and a whole bunch of Sci-Fi writers have used for forty years... and all we have to do is discover and use a form of energy that we can't even prove exists yet!!

That's some good science there, Lou....
 
Even if it is possible no one will spend the trillion dollars needed to create the technology and build the ship. We will not even spend the billions to build a decent space station or moon colony.

I fear we are stuck on this ball of rock forever.
 
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