Interesting Ideas on FTL Travel

[Dryson]

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warpstat_prt.htm

Ever since the sound barrier was broken, people have been asking: "Why can’t we break the light speed barrier too, what’s the big difference?" It is too soon to tell if the light barrier can be broken, but one thing is certain -- it’s a wholly different problem than breaking the sound barrier. The sound barrier was broken by an object that was made of matter, not sound. The atoms and molecules that make up matter are connected by electromagnetic fields, the same stuff that light is made of. In the case of the light speed barrier, the thing that’s trying to break the barrier is made up of the same stuff as the barrier itself. How can an object travel faster than that which links its atoms? Like we said, it’s a wholly different problem than breaking the sound barrier.

How can an object travel faster than that which links its atoms? - You make it so that the object repels the atoms away from the object prior to the object occupying the space that the atoms were located in.

How do you repel the atoms from object - You have to break the attractive values between the atoms and the object so that as the ship travels faster and faster it doesn't attract more atoms that will add mass to the ship thus causing it to expend more energy to propel itself to faster and faster velocities.

 

[Kemaiku]

Strings of words, no meaning, try again.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Appeals to crank authority don't help, either. http://www.spacefest.info/IV/about/Millis.html

All businesses have oddballs who get by.

 

[sojourner]

Dryson, read more, post less. Or failing that, move from the sci/tech forum to the trek tech forum. Your "ideas" might get more traction there.

 

[RoJoHen]

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warpstat_prt.htm

Ever since the sound barrier was broken, people have been asking: "Why can’t we break the light speed barrier too, what’s the big difference?" It is too soon to tell if the light barrier can be broken, but one thing is certain -- it’s a wholly different problem than breaking the sound barrier. The sound barrier was broken by an object that was made of matter, not sound. The atoms and molecules that make up matter are connected by electromagnetic fields, the same stuff that light is made of. In the case of the light speed barrier, the thing that’s trying to break the barrier is made up of the same stuff as the barrier itself. How can an object travel faster than that which links its atoms? Like we said, it’s a wholly different problem than breaking the sound barrier.

How can an object travel faster than that which links its atoms? - You make it so that the object repels the atoms away from the object prior to the object occupying the space that the atoms were located in.

How do you repel the atoms from object - You have to break the attractive values between the atoms and the object so that as the ship travels faster and faster it doesn't attract more atoms that will add mass to the ship thus causing it to expend more energy to propel itself to faster and faster velocities.

So, basically, we have to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

 

[Silvercrest]

What he's saying is that that a ship's increased mass at relativistic velocities will cause particles and such to gravitate toward the ship and stick, thus increasing its total mass and making it even harder to accelerate, and that's why we can't get up to light speed. And that to solve the problem, we have to keep the ship from attracting extra mass.

It's not true, but that's what he's saying. It has nothing to do with drag and so forth as others have posted. I figured this out a week or so ago.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Oh, you speak dumbass? Good, we've needed a translator in this thread for a while!

 

[Gov Kodos]

Oh, you speak dumbass? Good, we've needed a translator in this thread for a while!

Oooh!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kico0_ENOXo[/yt]

 

[Silvercrest]

And here I was absolutely sure it would be the Barbara Billingsley clip.

Like I said in the other thread, I may have just gotten in over my head.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Lou Costello on math would be about right.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Oh, you speak dumbass? Good, we've needed a translator in this thread for a while!

That is seriously enough. Indirectly calling a poster a dumbass is a flame, and you should already know that.

Since this thread has pretty well devolved into personal sniping, it's done.