Posted on 10/01/2014 4:35:50 PM PDT by lbryce
Had humans been alive billions of years ago, when the universe was more compact, it may have been easier to leapfrog from planet to planet or solar system to solar system. But today’s distances are so great as to seem insurmountable.
Humans Hardly Built for Jet Travel, Let Alone Space Travel
Some of my friends tell me they cannot bear to be on a plane for more than a few hours. This is perhaps the leading reason why people go crazy and try to open exit doors in mid-flight. I count “journey time” from the moment I leave my home to when my head hits the pillow at my destination and wait times at the airport in between.
The longest for me was 24 hours on a flight from New York to Tokyo. The flight itself was upwards of 18 hours. I am unfortunate to know people who can seemingly sleep the entire trip, shutting their eyes inexplicably as soon as the wheels leave the ground with eyes popping open when the wheels touch down at their destination.
(Excerpt) Read more at industrytap.com ...
But if NASA continues shilling some cockamamie theory about faster than Warp Drive then I might have to re-evaluate NASA's pragmatic state of mind and it's soon to be carted out era of faster than bull shiete ludicrous speed that Mel Brooks claimed he could do and join the ranks of moon landing deniers.
Well there has been some very interesting research into the possibility of warping space without the need for enormous mass. It takes a LOT of power but there has been nanometer scale warping of space through electromagnetism.
Orion would be sublight but certainly orders of magnitude faster than we can go now. As far as spaceflight is concerned, we’re really in the early stages of inventing the wheel.
interesting stuff. thanks for posting.
Great, NASA to send IS to the moon faster.
The “Alcubierre drive” is a mathematical premise for allowing space-time in a general relativity context to be stretched behind a ship and contracted ahead of is, therefore accelerating it forward without actually moving the ship itself. Since it isn’t really moving through space according to special relativity, but rather space itself is moving, it should be able to go faster than light.
One problem is that it requires a lot of energy, more than our sun can produce, for example. The only thing NASA is working on is a way to reduce that energy requirement. Another problem is that something called “exotic matter” is needed, but doesn’t exist. It has negative mass and therefore negative energy density, allowing space-time geometry to be manipulated in the manner that is required.
One of the things which fascinates me, mainly because I don’t really understand it is I have seen more than once that Einstein claimed that if you were riding a light wave, exactly no time would take place from the time you left until you arrived. This could be billions and billions of light years distant.
Couldn’t this somehow be used?
Heh, the article is really just a tease.
For the crew on a near light speed traveling ship, yes, but time back home and on the target planet continues normally. In effect, for folks back home, the ship accelerates into the future, and (if one was travelling a billion light years) the target would have aged a billion years (approximately) too, so who knows if it is still inhabitable, etc...
You think planes are bad....try living on a submarine.
Logic is a pretty flower that smells bad.
And I wouldn’t even go that far.
True, but we may not know all of the laws of physics.
I have been working with electronics for more than 40 years. If you would have told the finest engineering, chemistry, optical, and physics scientists 45 years ago that there would be mass-produced integrated circuits with billions of transistors on them early in the 21st century, or that I could go out to the store and buy a 100 watt LED lightbulb they would have told you that you were out of your mind. And I’ll bet they they could prove those things to be impossible with the science/technology available at that time.
It will be discovered April 5 2063
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