The Silver Surfer lives in space!
Posted on 03/08/2006 9:05:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Miguel Alcubierre came up with the idea of expanding the space behind a starship and contracting it in front of it. The starship would rest in a "warp bubble" between the two spacetime distortions. The result would be a wave in spacetime along which the starship would surf... There would be no limit to the velocity that a starship could attain. It could travel faster than the speed of light because the starship would, strictly speaking, be stationary in the space of its warp bubble. Also, the starship and its crew would be weightless and would therefore not be crushed by the enormous G-forces of acceleration and deceleration... What's more, the passage of time inside the warp bubble would be the same as that outside it. The crew would not suffer from Einstein's "time dilation" effect where time passes at different rates for people travelling at different speeds... Alcubierre's idea was a good one, but his work seemed to suggest that building a warp bubble would be impossible in practice. More energy than the entire universe could supply would be needed to create the spacetime distortions. However, Dr Van Den Broeck's analysis suggests a far lower amount of energy is required, reduced by a factor of one followed by 62 zeros... As Dr Van Den Broeck says in his forthcoming paper in General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology: "This does not mean that the proposal is realistic." ...But it just might be. Dr Van Den Broeck concludes his analysis by saying, "The first warp drive is still a long way off but maybe it has now become slightly less improbable."
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technology improbablity factor ping
A lot of FR topics mention Podkletnov, and quite a few mention Miguel Alcubierre. Here's one which doesn't. :')
"Dark energy" might not exist, scientists say
World Science | Feb. 14, 2006 | some geek who doesn't have a Valentine
Posted on 02/28/2006 1:17:49 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1587112/posts
The Silver Surfer lives in space!
I hope they hurry this up. I want to vacation on Riza.
Got surfin' due to this topic about Boris Volfson:
Patent issued for anti-gravity device
Science Daily.com | November 9, 2005 | UPI
Posted on 11/09/2005 1:57:31 PM EST by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518879/posts
...and Dr. Van Den Broeck lived happily ever after. The end.
Isn't that how stories like this usually end?
On the Verge of AntigravityI subscribe to an interesting hypothesis by Steve Burns (M.S., Nuclear Engineering) that the Podkletnov device works not by Cooper-pair electrons as Podklnetov believes, but instead by high-current ELF waves. If this hypothesis is correct, it will not only explain the results that Podkletnov has encountered, but also provide a framework for increasing the efficiency of his results to accurate, predictable and generally quite profound levels. If the De Aquino experiment works (which is premised to work running on 1/10 hertz ELF waves through 99.95% pure iron) the result should be 220+ pounds of "true antigravity" at approximately 10 amperes of electricity - perhaps 1.1kW (110volts/10 amps=1.1kW).
Tim Ventura interviewed
About Guide to Paranormal Phenomena
No, not....LUDICROUS SPEED !!!
They've gone plaid!
Where do we stand on the Flux Capacitor?
Assuming that the Ferengis tell us where it is....
(So am I!)
*sigh*
Maybe we should work on the infinite improbability drive instead. Anyone got a warm cup of tea?
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