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Faster than light
Zelos:
We are all familar whit the fact we humans have sent up satellits into orbit around our beloved planter, the mother of all life here, earth. And we humans have sent probes to the outer parts of our soler system. But will it ever be possible for us to travel att FTL (faster than light) speeds? there is a way to fake such enourmus speeds. In Special relativity it says time it self is slowed down when we come close to C (the speed of light, which is 299792458m/s). Like when we are at .99C (99% of the speed of light) the time is slowed down so that 1 second on the ship is 7 seconds on earth. on earth we see that the ship in question is still moving whit sub-light speed. But for those on the ship, which have a slowed down time, it seems to move FTL. But sadly for those on the ship, if they are traveling very close to C and is going to a start that is very far away they will never be able to meet anyone on earth they knewed, becouse they are all dead when the travelers has returned. But many who have seen star trek know the warp drive which bend the spacetime continium around the ship. it bend it so the distance infront of the ship becomes smaller while it makes the distance larger behinde it. we also have the hyperdrive which would enter higher dimensions to make the distances much shorter.
which 1 is most possible of these? or do you know another way? what is that way if so?
My Thought:
if you ppl ask me I think that the [you]Warp Drive[/you] is most possible. I base this on that einstein predicted that spacetme it bent when there is energy/mass present. so that tells some for the warp drive. and ive read that we might not need the "negative energy" that was proposed from the begining. what do you think guys`?
MightyPenguin:
Wormhole. Read the Algerbraist.
EDIT: And warp drive would take the energy of an exploding star every second.
Numsgil:
I think we'll find a way to cheat and move faster than light someday, but it probably won't be the way we think. But still, if it is invented, it'll be called warp or hyper drive because that's what science fiction tradition dictates.
Robots were invented in science fiction (in this case a polish play) long before they were in real life. Science Fiction is pretty perceptive most of the time.
Zelos:
MightyPenguin, wouldnt creating wormholes take more energy than a warp drive?
PurpleYouko:
The present theory is that to open a wormhole the size of a penny would take the equivalent of converting the mass of Jupiter to pure energy.
I read that quite recently in "New Scientist" magazine
Scientists beleive that they know exactly how to do it but just don't have enough power.
:rolleyes: PY :rolleyes:
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