Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
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Rolling coal - IN SPACE!!!
Antony - they mean that it may be (in the future) possible to create something like warp drive.
Antony - they mean that it may be (in the future) possible to create something like warp drive.
We're only a few steps away from the Engineer being able to tell the Captain that the warp drive is offline again.
Yes, but mushroom drive is just fine
I got a mushroom drive in my pants.
Yes, but mushroom drive is just fine
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As for other jurisdictions, I haven't bothered googling.
A famous astronomer did opine once that interstellar travel would require developing human mental abilities, but I'm not sure that he meant by warping the space between the ears. I expect the writers of Discovery knew more about that subject.
Talking of disturbed mental states:
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The judder drive interests me.
I think for that to work, it needs nanofabrication:
Inverted-Mode Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Atomically Precise Fabrication
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) enables fabrication of atomically precise structures with unique properties and growing technological potential. However, reproducible manipulation of covalently bonded atoms requires control over the atomic configuration of both sample and probe - a...
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The EM Drive, even if the math worked, relies upon a crude frustum.
A ponderomotive wave through an array perhaps a bit better.
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I'd bet on the fundamental space and time symmetries preventing non-conservation of momentum and energy, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if there is some fundamental loophole that we have yet to discover and could exploit. It might mean we'd have access to perpetual motion machines and I wonder what the drawbacks of those would be - environmentally catastrophic heat pollution and everyone having ready access to non-nuclear gigaton-scale weapons perhaps. The oil industry magnates would also be pissed. Yet another candidate for the Great Filter...The judder drive interests me.
I think for that to work, it needs nanofabrication:
Inverted-Mode Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Atomically Precise Fabrication
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) enables fabrication of atomically precise structures with unique properties and growing technological potential. However, reproducible manipulation of covalently bonded atoms requires control over the atomic configuration of both sample and probe - a...
The EM Drive, even if the math worked, relies upon a crude frustum.
A ponderomotive wave through an array perhaps a bit bette
We have all seen motors lurch when turned on...no free lunch there.
Look how the motor for this sub-model almost jumps off the table at the 0.38 mark here:
Ground installations burn fuel--beam power to the judder drive and it does a less messy e-mag equivalent of pusher-plate Orions.
If physics allows it
Look how the motor for this sub-model almost jumps off the table at the 0.38 mark here:
Ground installations burn fuel--beam power to the judder drive and it does a less messy e-mag equivalent of pusher-plate Orions.
If physics allows it
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I'll cheer if they ever get it working.
I have wondered whether instead of warping space-time, it might be possible to warp reality to achieve the same result. Travel from space-time coordinate A to space-time coordinate B instantly by selecting the reality in which you exist at point B. If all possible states exist simultaneously in a timeless realm - whether of mass-energy states that enable the illusion of cognition or of pure cognitive states themselves - what would it take to change one's cognitive state? It would require the target cognitive state to possess the memory of just having been at point A while perceiving the environment of point B. You might or might not "personally" experience travelling without moving, but like cognition in general, both sensations would be equally as illusory. I assume these are the types of states that gurus of eastern meditative practices strive to achieve.
...or you could put down your phone and try to get back to sleep instead of typing weird phantasmagorical musings. Sounds more sensible...
...or you could put down your phone and try to get back to sleep instead of typing weird phantasmagorical musings. Sounds more sensible...
Donnie Darko dealt with that just a little bit (the initial concept of the movie was supposed to include the website that offered more info on some of the characters in the film as well as "The Philosophy of Time Travel". But most of that info is gone, now.
Donnie, as he begins to understand the tangential nature of the timeline he's in, realizes that certain movements he might otherwise take would not otherwise be possible being "Outside God's Channel" (he's going to use religious symbolism if for no other reason he's basing his understanding on a fellow time traveler's book , the old nun, Roberta Sparrow aka Grandma Death.) To travel time, which essentially is FTL, is an act of will.
But in that pocket universe created by the falling jet engine crossing realities, he IS outside the channel and capable of literally following his heart, as seen in the foot-ball watching scene, or the costume party. Interestingly, when he does mention "God's Channel" , the science teacher, who until that moment had been supportive of Darko and possibly giving him breadcrumbs to these answers, shuts up and won't speak further, claiming he will get fired.
Yes, it's another mind bender of a movie. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin is my favourite in that vein. Once one starts thinking such ideas might be actuality, I wonder if one could become increasingly untethered from reality. My perception of such has been feeling very weird recently.
there is probley a alternate earth where warp drive and space travel is common
Might there be other perceived realities where the laws of physics differ from the ones we experience? Perhaps so, but it sounds impossible to falsify. Even if one could change the substrate of the reality that one perceives, that instance of perception might lie in but one of many threads within each of which an entity would identify itself as unique as it traces a path through possible states of consciousness.
