Inter-stellar Star Trek-type travel possible?

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Inter-stellar Star Trek-type travel possible?
Topic Started: May 10 2009, 11:28 PM (132 Views)
XNavyGunner	May 10 2009, 11:28 PM Post #1
Gunner Posts: 11,696 Group: Global Moderators Member #89 Joined: Sep 5 2006 Gender Male	Nearby stars could one day become your weekend getaways if researchers are to be believed. Physicists say that the warp drive, one of Star Trek's hallmark inventions, could someday become a reality. Faster-than-light travel technology could enable humans to jet between stars, but the trick is to ditch the rockets. The science is complex, but not strictly impossible, according to some researchers studying how to make it happen. The trick seems to be to find some other means of propulsion besides rockets, which would never be able to accelerate a ship to velocities faster than that of light, the fundamental speed limit set by Einstein's General Relativity. Luckily for us, this speed limit only applies within space-time (the continuum of three dimensions of space plus one of time that we live in). While any given object can't travel faster than light speed within space-time, theory holds, perhaps space-time itself could travel. "The idea is that you take a chunk of space-time and move it," quotes Marc Millis, former head of Nasa's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, as saying. "The vehicle inside that bubble thinks that it's not moving at all. It's the space-time that's moving." One reason this idea seems credible is that scientists think it may already have happened. Some models suggest that space-time expanded at a rate faster than light speed during a period of rapid inflation shortly after the Big Bang. Already some studies have claimed to find possible signatures of moving space-time. For example, scientists rotated super-cold rings in a lab. They found that still gyroscopes placed above the rings seem to think they themselves are rotating simply because of the presence of the spinning rings beneath. The researchers postulated that the ultra-cold rings were somehow dragging space-time, and the gyroscope was detecting the effect. Source



Max	May 11 2009, 08:40 AM Post #2
Major Max Jenius C.O. Dancing Skulls SFU Posts: 7,241 Group: Members Member #3,307 Joined: Mar 6 2009 Gender Male Age Group 30's Country - USA Quotation - Don't Forget To Try in Mind-Love enlightens everything better than jewels do.	Well,if it is possible to travel FTL-the principles will be discovered by scientists and engineers that believe it's Possible,rather than someone who says it isn't.



DONTEATUS	May 11 2009, 09:10 AM Post #3
Higher Species Posts: 2,631 Group: Members Member #3,287 Joined: Jan 30 2009 Gender Male	Hint the Movie"Contact with Jody Foster" These Ideas true seem like Sci-Fi, but in fact have grounded basis. Its called exposure and slow leaks of things to come. Its very possible that we even know how to and do so as we type. remember anything is Possible. Spice,and Dreams are the Trip`s of the Future`s Minds. See Y`all in the Stars. Edited by DONTEATUS, May 11 2009, 09:11 AM.



hunter207	May 11 2009, 01:29 PM Post #4
Boss Posts: 456 Group: Members Member #3,288 Joined: Feb 1 2009 Gender Male	Ahem I'd like to order the Enterprise E with a side order of the defiant I hope we fins a way to travel this way... I would so go into space then
	USS Excalibur NCC-7109


Max	May 11 2009, 01:52 PM Post #5
Major Max Jenius C.O. Dancing Skulls SFU Posts: 7,241 Group: Members Member #3,307 Joined: Mar 6 2009 Gender Male Age Group 30's Country - USA Quotation - Don't Forget To Try in Mind-Love enlightens everything better than jewels do.	LOL make mine Connie-Class Enterprise,the refit,or Miranda-Class like USS Reliant.



DONTEATUS	May 11 2009, 03:23 PM Post #6
Higher Species Posts: 2,631 Group: Members Member #3,287 Joined: Jan 30 2009 Gender Male	Make Mine the "Heart of Gold" with the New and Improved Infinite Infinite improbility Drive! And a Trillian to Help on the Long trips!



Wabbit	Aug 16 2009, 02:15 AM Post #7
Higher Species Posts: 1,388 Group: Members Member #3,354 Joined: Jul 6 2009 Gender Male	I'll have red dwarf



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