Warp Drive Theoretically Possible

Faster-than-light-travel, you say? Well, I’m here waiting for it as I have waited for virtual reality and the cloned mammoth science promised me.

So this scientist decided to rip off every other scientists theories and call it his own… Kudos…

If we havn’t yet figured out how to travel at the speed of light then how are we gonna travel faster than that?
Nonsense.

Well, Zo, it’s kinda like the problem we had breaking the Sound Barrier: the trans-sonic region would always be tearing the planes apart.
Once we perfected supersonic flight, we made sure to not spend much time in that region. Just punch right past it as quickly as possible and leave it far behind.
Probably gonna be a similar situation with FTL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light

I can turn iron into gold within a golden bubble. How exactly that bubble would be created is a mystery but once it’s created I’ll be rich!

@carl

Your going at warp speed. Why would you want to stop?

TOP,

Just don’t push too hard this time. You remember what happened last time when you accidently tore a hole in the space time continuum, and we had to deal with the flesh eating jello mould a second time. I mean, once was enough.

So? We’ve known for years to travel at the speed of light (and faster, thus pushing us forward in time without the effects of it) is theoretically possible. I’d like to see a scientific theory that somehow, without breaking the laws of physics, proves that you can theoretically go back in time.

i enjoy the term “arbitrarily high speeds”

i am going to go beyond the displeasure already expressed in these comments and allude to my larger quam with jazzy science: in these sorts of theories extrapolations are made upon extrapolations all in the name of government grants and publicity.

dark energy? we have extrapolated it’s possible existence based on ponderings of dark matter. we believe that dark matter might exist based on the fact that by our calculations there isn’t as much observable matter in the universe as there should be. we think we know how much matter there should be based upon another forumla. this stuff snowballs out of control all throughout the scientific community. string theory is an mathematical extrapolation with no actual evidence; even the big bang theory, which is probably the most widely believed theory in the world, is based off of very little actual evidence.

evolution ironically is backed by so much evidence if you could put the physical mass of it into one big lump it would be small mountain.

i support darkhorse theories, steady state for one, not because they have a ton of evidence themselves, but because their rival theories are often baseless. i even think the expanding earth theory has merit…and most people think that stuff is ridiulous.

Actually, to build upon what c0ldfish said, I’ve wondered for years how most of this stuff even qualifies as “science.” I was taught in school that science is defined by use of the scientific method, which involves formulating hypotheses, performing experiments, and making conclusions based on observable, reproducible, empirical results.

It seems like, if that’s true, science can only be used to describe the universe at present. Anything that attempts to explain the past, or predict future “possibilities” may be valid, but as I understand it, it shouldn’t be called “science.” That’s more like epistemology or futurism or some other clearly theoretical doctrine.

Sorry TimO but rainbows and fairy-dust are exactly what my computer works on. …At least- that is what my daughter thinks. And she can know because she knows all about fairy-tales.

Just borrow the blueprints from theat movie “Contact”..It seemed to workfor them at the end

@ Gauldar. How would you ever get to a desired destination without stopping xD?

This is just the recycled work of Miguel Alcubierre and several scientists following him, with a fanciful graphic added by another physicist.

This idea is so old it’s literally last century.

The drive idea is, however, founded on good solid science. You should check it out, Wikipedia is your friend.

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

Last time I checked, physicists didn’t design vehicles anyways, we train perfectly good engineers for that, don’t we?

hmmm. Im skeptical

Nothing can travel faster than light, the author should specify that the ship really isn’t traveling faster than light, but that the space-time matrix it sits on is being manipulated relative to this…. “bubble”…

Even if he does go around building this ship, the amount of energy needed to warp the space-time matrix is quite possibly infinate, making this nigh impractical.

Bah, who needs causality?

Well, in one episode of the original “STAR TREK”, Aptly named: “ALL OF OUR YESTERDAYS”, the Enterprise is accidentally thrown back in time when the ship flew a little to close to a black hole…
To get back to their own time they flew around the sun at warp 8, and were sling-shotted faster than possible through drive…
For a very short time they were traveling at HYPER-WARP velocities…
cool huh…