Yes you read that right, not only faster than light, but [b]10X FASTER[/b].
This would allow us to visit Giliese 581g, a planet similar to earth 20 light years away, in [b][u]2 YEARS[/u][/b]. 2 years is nothing when it comes to long distance trips!
[quote]Working at NASA Eagleworks—a skunkworks operation deep at NASA's Johnson Space Center—Dr. White's team is trying to find proof of those loopholes. They have "initiated an interferometer test bed that will try to generate and detect a microscopic instance of a little warp bubble" using an instrument called the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer.
It may sound like a small thing now, but the implications of the research huge. In his own words:
[quote]Although this is just a tiny instance of the phenomena, it will be existence proof for the idea of perturbing space time-a "Chicago pile" moment, as it were. Recall that December of 1942 saw the first demonstration of a controlled nuclear reaction that generated a whopping half watt. This existence proof was followed by the activation of a ~ four megawatt reactor in November of 1943. Existence proof for the practical application of a scientific idea can be a tipping point for technology development.[/quote]
By creating one of these warp bubbles, the spaceship's engine will compress the space ahead and expand the space behind, moving it to another place without actually moving, and carrying none of the adverse effects of other travel methods. According to Dr. White, "by harnessing the physics of cosmic inflation, future spaceships crafted to satisfy the laws of these mathematical equations may actually be able to get somewhere unthinkably fast—and without adverse effects."[/quote]
The important thing is that this could open the door to a new kind of space travel! One where we can visit other star systems and return to tell the tale to our families.
Space is the next sea we will sail upon.
[url=http://gizmodo.com/5942634/nasa-starts-development-of-real-life-star-trek-warp-drive]link[/url]
[url=http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20110023492]NASA Eagleworks[/url]
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How would relativity act? Would we be able to travel back in time? It seems like things would be different if we contorted space but I have no idea how. It seems like it would fall under the rules of general relativity, seeing as it involves the compression of spacetime, similar to gravity, but I don't know much about that subject. Please comment if you know.
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Awesome sauce man.
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Slip space rupture detected
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What about time travel?
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Is there any chance this will happen in our life times? Having sex with an alien is on my bucket list.
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I've heard this "bubble" idea in theory many times before, and if they can turn the theory into reality, I will be losing my shit like a manure truck driving down the highway with the trunk open.
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What we need is an improbability drive!
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I like the idea behind what the ender books had happen for faster than speed of light travel
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Related topic
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Edited by BUNGlE: 7/4/2015 3:54:59 AMLmfao, this exact idea was on a futurama episode lol. [u][b]Edit[/b][/u] Here is the link. http://theinfosphere.org/Dark-matter_engines
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Bump for science
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So you aren't moving at the speed of light (impossible since we have mass) and the only thing that moved faster than the speed of light for a couple nanoseconds was energy from the big bang..... we are just shortening the distance traveled between two points so we travel less than light has to travel?
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Guys... In order to go just the speed of light... You'd need an object that has zero mass and infinite acceleration... So please explain how we could be able to get not one, not two, but potentially MILLIONS of humans to get on one huge ass ship that has absolutely no mass and can accelerate infinitely...
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Ah, the good-old-fashioned Alcubierre drive. Never mind the absolutely [i][b]colossal[/b][/i] amounts of negative energy required, or the inability to steer, or the inability to exit the bubble.
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This is why NASA needs more funding. Instead, we spend all of it on stealing oil from the Middle East.
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And it's Relativity free.
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By Newton's laws, would that also propel the photons of the travelling object so that it would be visible to anything travelling at the same speed?
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I'd bet money that the first ship with this will be the named 'Enterprise'
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They say nothing is faster than the speed of light. >get flashlight >record flashlight >fast forward Problem science?
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As long as it happens in the next 50 years, I'm happy.
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[quote]By creating one of these warp bubbles, the spaceship's engine will compress the space ahead and expand the space behind, moving it to another place without actually moving, and carrying none of the adverse effects of other travel methods. According to Dr. White, "by harnessing the physics of cosmic inflation, future spaceships crafted to satisfy the laws of these mathematical equations may actually be able to get somewhere unthinkably fast—and without adverse effects."[/quote] Fascinating! This sounds like an "Information Drive" that uses the idea behind the Holographic Universe principle of string theory to, basically, rewrite the local conditions. In effect, it rewrites the properties of the area around it so that it no longer exists [i]here[/i] but has moved over [i]there.[/i] Or, in other words, producing thrust without actually moving (as we currently think of moving). Very cool.
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It would be awesome Basically get a gun and super telescope Stand on the moon and fire gun, travel back to earth look through telescope at moon, and see yourself firing the gun THUG LYFE
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Space! The final frontier!
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We're gonna try it. Something's gonna go wrong. End of the universe. Hooray mankind.
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This is amazing. I truly hope I live to see this happen. Are you a fan of Star Trek?