I was kind of partial to the Bistromatic drive which Douglas Adams came up with. Based on the premise that math in an Italian Bistro doesn’t follow the normal rules of math.
Adam’s infinite improbability drive was unique too, but I thought it was a little messy with equally improbable side effects.
Faster than light travel....
I have a postulation; even if it is ever possile, it will not happen under the ‘O’.
In reality, Probably will never happen anyway.
I, and we, can dream. I’ll be the first to sign up to get warped out of this warped place, till then I’ll stand up, do my best, as much as I can, to fufill my obligations.
The known laws of physics say no. The physisit today has been put into a position of writing what amounts to pure fiction.
Why?
Because any proposed manned mission to Mars is too expensive. We’re told going back to the moon is moot.
Because we are told that weaponizing space is so bad and so expensive, even as our enemies learn how to cripple all of the satellites in orbit with 60’s technoligy.
Because all of our greatest number crunchers, scientists, of all stripe, need to do something - the greatest minds - now having to search for a paycheck, because there is no funding for legitimate space science.
Eienstien himself, (spinning in his grave) were he alive today, would admit that the social education system reaches mile stone after mile stone, year after year, that we pass less and less educated youth.
Beam me up Scotty.
Warp travel in Star Trek is not faster than light. The warp drive just “shortens” the distance and the impulse drive pushes the ship through the shorter distance. That’s why its called warp drive and not FTL drive. (sources: Mr Scott’s Guide To The Enterprise and the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual)
Seriously, there is the concept of tachyon particles, which could travel only faster than the speed of light"
IIRC, that is mathematically possible, but the physics is a different story.
Wait, this thread isn't about Whip It...
Thanks KD.
‘Star Trek’-Style Warp Drive: Tough, but Not Impossible
(This is what Ezekiel saw)
Fox News | 5-07-09 | Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 05/07/2009 9:38:11 AM PDT by springtime4hillary
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246177/posts
Actually, I don’t think a warp drive, which was used in many science fiction books of the 1940s to 1960s(ok maybe not many but certainly a few), is not about faster than light but rather about warping space and kind of cutting across in a shortcut.
Light could go faster if it didn’t stop to wave....