Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek's FTL Drive May Actually Work

[The Enigma]

Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek's FTL Drive May Actually Work


In the "Star Trek" TV shows and films, the U.S.S. Enterprise's warp engine
allows the ship to move faster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would
say, "highly illogical."

http://www.technewsdaily.com/images/i/000/011/859/original/StarTrekBlunders.png?1368483971

However, there's a loophole in Einstein's general theory of relativity (http://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html) that
could allow a ship to traverse vast distances in less time than it would take
light. The trick? It's not the starship that's moving — it's the space around it.

In fact, scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field
test toward proving the possibility of warp drives and faster-than-light
travel. Maybe the warp drive on "Star Trek" is possible after all. [See also:
Warp Drive: Can It Be Done? (Video) (http://www.space.com/16413-star-trek-s-warp-drive-are-we-there-yet-video.html)]

According to Einstein's theory, an object with mass cannot go as fast or
faster than the speed of light. The original "Star Trek" series ignored this
"universal speed limit" in favor of a ship that could zip around the galaxy in a
matter of days instead of decades. They tried to explain the ship's faster-
than-light capabilities by powering the warp engine with a "matter-
antimatter" engine. Antimatter was a popular field of study in the 1960s,
when creator Gene Roddenberry was first writing the series. When matter
and antimatter collide, their mass is converted to kinetic energy in keeping
with Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc2.

Read the full article at: TechNews Daily (http://www.technewsdaily.com/18051-star-trek-warp-drive-possible.html)

[Skybird]

There was a newspaper article just days ago on an issue they discuss about the Higgs Boson. It seems there is some problem with the matter of it, as I recall it, its weight. Meaning that if the Higgs Boson would be created and be the way and nature predicted (or indeed is like that, I do not remember it precisely, I just flew over it), it would destabilize the whole universe'S structure and mankind - or better maybe: mind - only existing on some sort of a razorblade'S thin edge between stability and instability, existence and non-existence. I don't get it together correctly, maybe somebody has an English link. It's just days ago.

What I mean is: be careful with trying to move all universe around yourself being a fixpoint. :D You may end up like the three last protagonists in this fantastic movie, "The Quiet Earth". :timeout:

Awfully good movie. Maximum effect for minimum cost.

Youtube has it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CsLc-9Ez2w

1 hour 30 min.

[Jimbuna]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/JFliegel/picard-facepalm.jpg

[Skybird]

That was the Geman article:

http://www.focus.de/wissen/weltraum/odenwalds_universum/tid-31139/gefahr-fuer-das-universum-ist-das-gottesteilchen-higgs-boson-ein-vorbote-der-apokalypse_aid_985901.html

They say the mass of this particle is within a value margin where it could destabilise vacuum itself - and by that it could make the universe collapsing. This theory is based on calculations done by Sidney Coleman and Frank de Luccia in 1980. Wikipedia links their names to this article about the so-called "false vacuum".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum

That is not one but two hijacking articles. Double facepalm, please!

P.S. Google also gives this: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/ph564/ColemanDeLuccia.pdf Don'T ask me to explain the formulas, I cannot. :D

[Cybermat47]

If it does actually work, we've got to call the place 'slipstream space', and have the FTL drive made by two guys with the surnames 'Shaw' and 'Fujikiwa'. Ok?

[Onkel Neal]

You want to see FTL speed? You should see my Suzuki when I wake up late for work. It can bend time and space.

[vienna]

Possible physics excuse for when you get pulled over:

"Really, Officer, I wasn't speeding; the earth was just moving really fast..."

<O>

[Betonov]

You want to see FTL speed? You should see my Suzuki when I wake up late for work. It can bend time and space.

Suzikis tend to do that :D

[Red October1984]

Suzikis tend to do that :D

Well you don't have a whole lot of room to really get on it since Slovenia is so small. :03:

Drive across the whole country in a day. :O:

[TLAM Strike]

If it does actually work, we've got to call the place 'slipstream space', and have the FTL drive made by two guys with the surnames 'Shaw' and 'Fujikiwa'. Ok?

No its Cochrane Continuum Distortion Propulsion. :O:

[Red October1984]

No its Cochrane Continuum Distortion Propulsion. :O:

If you change Distortion with Confusion...the acronym is C.C.C.P

SOVIETS! I KNEW IT! I saw right through your lies. This is obviously a plot to overthrow the Russian government and return Russia to it's former glory. :hmmm:

[Betonov]

Drive across the whole country in a day. :O:

3-4 hours acrros the widest part :O:

[CaptainMattJ.]

If it does actually work, we've got to call the place 'slipstream space', and have the FTL drive made by two guys with the surnames 'Shaw' and 'Fujikiwa'. Ok?
No

Besides slipstream space was supposed to be a different dimension, one that threw all previous knowledge of space and time out the window and whose properties defied logic.

[Stealhead]

If you change Distortion with Confusion...the acronym is C.C.C.P

SOVIETS! I KNEW IT! I saw right through your lies. This is obviously a plot to overthrow the Russian government and return Russia to it's former glory. :hmmm:

C.C.C.P is in Russian Cyrillic you see C.C.C.P is how USSR appears in Cyrillic letters.

Now I will send a burst transmission from the Kremlin only you will be able to see it Red October1984 it will activate the inner sleeper KGB agent hidden in your inner mind with your aid the Soviet Union will invent FTL drives go back in time and crush the capitalist imperialist dogs once and for all......sending transmission.........................
Владимир Путин является моим папой Я также целовать ноги Брежнева международного советско мой брат и сестра Красный Октябрь!
Для C.C.C.P!

[Red October1984]

C.C.C.P is in Russian Cyrillic you see C.C.C.P is how USSR appears in Cyrillic letters.

Now I will send a burst transmission from the Kremlin only you will be able to see it Red October1984 it will activate the inner sleeper KGB agent hidden in your inner mind with your aid the Soviet Union will invent FTL drives go back in time and crush the capitalist imperialist dogs once and for all......sending transmission.........................
Владимир Путин является моим папой Я также целовать ноги Брежнева международного советско мой брат и сестра Красный Октябрь!
Для C.C.C.P!

Да здравствует Советский Союз!

Err...what did I just say?

WHERE DID THAT COME FROM!? Why can I suddenly speak русский?

Я думаю, что у меня есть проблемы but I'm not completely sure. :hmm2:

[Cybermat47]

Васей ринг Рогозин роо игр шпон лещ Ренат!

[Red October1984]

Васей ринг Рогозин роо игр шпон лещ Ренат!

Это не переводить с Google Translate. Возьмите этого мальчика в ГУЛАГ


Ugh... I've got a hell of a headache... :-?

[Stealhead]

Тема КРАСНЫЙ ОКТЯБРЬ 1984 года не принимает отказа привода плана.
Отправить в кот Дмитрия Медведева, чтобы санировать цель.


Wow that translated from English to Russian back to English very humorously.Be wary of cats that look like Dimitry Medevev Red.Copy the Cyrillic and let Google translate it into English.

I'll post what I originally typed in English later i think the way it translates makes it much better.That is the weakness of internet translators they just cant translate contextual words that only occur in one language into a different language.

[Red October1984]

Миссия принимаются.

Должен ли я включать император Путин?

[Stealhead]

मिशन की पुष्टि की है, लेकिन आप एक सिरदर्द हो रही बिना पढ़ सकते हैं.
विष्णु की कृपा है.

[Red October1984]

טאקע. מיר וועלן גיינ ווייַטער מיט אָפּעראַציע קלאָוס רוף

[Stealhead]

Working for Mossad now?

[Red October1984]

Working for Mossad now?

Ah...yeah...you see I hang out with Raptor1 in the Subsim Chat and sometimes I do an odd job for them.

[Stealhead]

Tell him that I want one of those magnetic bombs that they gave the operatives in Iran so they could kill that nuclear scientist.

[Red October1984]

Tell him that I want one of those magnetic bombs that they gave the operatives in Iran so they could kill that nuclear scientist.

I'll see what I can do. They're a bit tied up with Syria at the moment. They've been going through those pretty fast. :hmmm: