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I see the regulars on FR have just about left this behind due to graduation from amateur science 101. Goedel proved that we can travel anywhere in time, and that means time is an illusion. We're just not looking at it right.
"Never say Never" ...
While I have no problem believing you can travel faster than light someday I must observe that scientific american also had an article recently blaming the start of global warming on the first ancient farmers to the present day humans............
Even if we can't go faster than the speed of light, maybe we can increase the speed of light....
I already read this article tomorrow.
Thus since the speed of light it not a constant, traveling faster than it is possible in theory. But the more interesting research is in using high-powered laser looped on themselves to created a wormhole in space/time for time travel and space teleporting.
Been there....done that....{:-)
Guth did it. To create a solution by using mathematics as a convenient porthole is not the same thing as the discovering the absolute truth. If there was one big bang, there must be another, and so it goes.
But if we're traveling faster than light at night and turn out headlights on, what happens?
Pioneer is leaving the solar system at a faster-than-expected rate. One speculation is that light may be faster than established out there, making interstellar travel that much easier.
You wanna travel in the multi-verse and see some outta this world sights?
The planets react to the instantaneous position of other planets even though the time for light to travel between them may be hours, days, weeks or months. If there was a lag in the reaction because of the light speed, many planet orbits would fly apart in spirals. Funny, nobody make a fuss about this because it has always been this way.
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I hate to be a wet blanket, but...
Ever have a bug hit your windshield as you're tooling down the highway? Of course you have. A minor smudge on the glass, and that's about it.
Now, ever have a rock kicked up or tossed out by a semi strike your windshield while cruising at freeway speeds? I have, a couple of times. Chipped or Cracked glass, possibly worse.
Sadly, empty interstellar space is not all that empty. I for one would NOT want to be in a vehicle moving at 93,000 miles per SECOND that was going to hit anything larger than an occasional hydrogen atom. That's just at 1/2 lightspeed, where there are NO theoretical problems at all!
Assuming someone develops some sort of really cool, nigh invulnerable shielding, then at a minimum, what you have is the re-introduction of aerodynamic drag and "wind" resistance, and your energy consumption just to maintain a constant speed increases exponentially.
No, the only way you are going to be able to cross interstellar distances is with either a slow boat generational ship, or with the "warping" of space, essentially folding the distance to bring your destination "closer" to you.
We already can.Dont you guys watch Stargate SG1.What a bunch of morons.
Long, long ago, in 1922, Louis DeBroglie published his theory of MATTER WAVES. They were subsequently discovered at the Bell Labs : we're HALF waves as well as particles : MATTER WAVES or the "wave function" as obliquely referred to by physicists(hoping you'll get ElectroMagnetic waves confused with MATTER WAVES). Thus the formula : E=mc^2=hw where h is the quantum and w is the "wave number". DeBroglie's formula for the maximum velocity of MATTER WAVES is U = c^2/v. Relativists went ballistic upon hearing that MATTER WAVES travel FASTER than the speed of light(c); thus the "cover story" of phase and group waveforms(pure nonsense to cover their behinds), and cosigning DeBroglie to "crazy aunt alice" status. How often do you hear MATTER WAVES discussed by physicists? Thus by n/0=n and nx0=n(division is repetitive subtraction, n/0=n-0-0-...=n ; and what is 2x3x0? thus nx0=n+0=n), thus it reduces to E=c^2=w. Thus FTL has been there as the foundation of quantum mechanics since the beginning. Analogy (to a jet plane): locally v=0(everything within is in a pure momentum state)and globally moving at c^2, covering 1 light year in 105 seconds....
It does no such thing. The theory *assumes* that nothing can travel faster than light. The rest, like E=MC2, comes from that assumption.