Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole

Discovery News ^ | June 11, 2009 | Eric Bland

[SunkenCiv]

"Star Trek" makes faster-than-light travel look easy, but according to new calculations by Italian physicists, a warp drive could easily create a black hole that would incinerate any passengers on a space craft and then suck Earth into a black hole. "Warp drives are so far the best case scenario to attain faster-than-light travel," said Stefano Finazzi of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies. This paper "makes it much harder to realize, if not almost impossible, warp drives." ...Other physicists agree with the Italians' calculations, up to a point. "It's a good paper; their results are sound," said Gerald Cleaver, a professor of physics at Baylor University who reviewed the work. The results make sense, at least, when creating warp drive using exotic matter in a universe where 1 plus 1 equals 2. In a universe where 1 plus 1 equals 3, a possibility with string theory instead of the semi classical physics used by the Italians, a stable warp drive is viable. Last year Cleaver and co-author Richard Obousy detailed a string theory-based warp drive that creates a bubble of space time by expanding one of the tiny, rolled-up dimensions (instead of a bubble of dark energy) predicted by string theory. The biggest sticking point to a extra dimension-based warp drive? The entire mass of Jupiter would have to be converted into pure energy to power it.

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[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[Jeffrey_D.]

Don’t tell me we’re all going to die ....again!

[Mr_Moonlight]

Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole

Well AWRIGHT then! Tha'd be kinda cool :)

[FlingWingFlyer]

That isn’t a “Warp Drive Engine!” That’s the Obamacoms’ political agenda! And yes! We are being sucked into a black hole.

[SandWMan]

Warp drive will cause black holes?? Oh, no, what do we do!!!!

[allmost]

So we’re all stuck.

[JRandomFreeper]

Dang! I'm glad I read this. Note to self: quit buying particle accelerator and warp drive plans off of the internet.

Anybody in the market for a bunch of mono-pole magnets?

/johnny

[SunkenCiv]

Quantum Setback For Warp Drives [back to the drawing board]
Slashdot | 4/3/9 | kdawson
Posted on 04/03/2009 8:50:10 AM PDT by Clint Williams
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2221572/posts

[skinkinthegrass]

"The Force, shall protect us."
Yoda said so.

[SunkenCiv]

warp drive black hole site:freerepublic.com

Google

[Hugin]

The entire mass of Jupiter would have to be converted into pure energy to power it.

Yes, but it will create 2 million new Green Jobs in 5 years. Therefore the government is going to spend 23 trillion dollars to invent this new technology.

[allmost]

I despise this crap BTW. I like the list. Check it out, tell me what you think...

[JoeProBono]

[LiberConservative]

Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole

WRONG! The CERN LHC will do it first.

[SunkenCiv]

The *worst* part of this news is, the freakin’ Enterprise spends so much time in the 20th century that we’ve probably all been sucked into the black hole for years already. Hmm, it is pretty dark out...

[SunkenCiv]

LOL... Wait a sec'...

I despise this crap BTW. I like the list. Check it out, tell me what you think...

Okay, now, that created a mind warp... [surfs some websites] okay, good, not the same thing...

[Alex Murphy]

"Star Trek" makes faster-than-light travel look easy, but according to new calculations by Italian physicists, a warp drive could easily create a black hole that would incinerate any passengers on a space craft and then suck Earth into a black hole.

And pull an asteroid in just for good measure...

[Jack Hammer]

Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole

No chance - Obama’s gonna get us there first.

[SunkenCiv]

Turns out we can reverse the effect with a Evird Praw. Dang, that was close.

[allmost]

It turtles all the way down you know...

[dfwgator]

"She's gone from suck to blow"

[Chode]

i suppose starting it a goodly distance AWAY from earth would be tooo much to ask...

[Mr_Moonlight]

Evird Praw

[Prophet in the wilderness]

How about a zenith pulsar plasma accelerator ?

[Jeffrey_D.]

Right on!!!

Those calculations I bet assume Newton’s G at small scale when in fact G
may be G* ~ 10^40 times larger than Newton’s G on the relevant
micro-scale! Note that 10^20 is square root of 10^40 so that a quantum
gravity effect of order (Lp*/L) scales as (G*/G)^1/2

s/o

[Huskrrrr]

Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole

Daffy Duck (Duck Dodgers): “Whoops...had the silly thing in reverse” Batta-bing

[JRandomFreeper]

Can I build one in the garage?

/johnny

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The Zenith Pulsar is kind of difficult to get..... but, it might be doable ...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I’m more worried about Chicago!

[Star Traveler]

“Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole”

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But, wouldn’t we just come out the other side... ? LOL...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Ohhh darn it ... I forgot to tell you....
It only comes in left handed reverse .. but, you might be able to ( if you tweek it ) to be a right handed forward accelerator....
Ohh yeah ? BTW ?? I also forgot ? DON'T PUSH THE GREEN BUTTON !!!

[john in springfield]

Well... damn.

So what you’re saying is, I shouldn’t have bought 1,000 shares of Allied Warp Systems at $95 a share.

[KevinDavis]

[tet68]

Note to self: quit buying particle accelerator and warp drive plans off of the internet.

Psssst. Hey bud, look, I got these drive plans here, only slightly used, at that by a major manufacturer, if I told
you the name you’d recognize them right off the bat.
Look these are good plans, government plans, but keep it
under your hat ok?
I call this the “TARP” drive and I can let you have it cheap
just write me at Obama.surplusdrives.gov

[armymarinemom]

Gone to Plaid

[JRandomFreeper]

I call this the “TARP” drive and I can let you have it cheap

My understanding is that the TARP drive creates paper out of thin air and printing presses and can cause an uncontrolled economic implosion if activated..... I dunnno.

/johnny

[pankot]

Yes, but would anybody really miss it?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

No, I’m afraid it is the black hole that will swallow the earth!

[matt1234]

"Captain, your misgivings about the warp engines are duly noted. But, as the ranking officer on board, I ORDER you to set out for Starbase 12 immediately at maximum warp speed."

[Dallas59]

"It'll never fly...."

[EternalVigilance]

"Don't listen to them."

[Neidermeyer]

TOO COOL ,, a RED shirt and a flunky of the Evil Kirk!

[tet68]

Actually the “tarp” drive relies on two government officials to shovel newly printed money into the ionization
chamber, thus creating hot gas which propels congress forward. It’s rather slow and ponderous but it works fine as long as the paper and ink holds out.

[anymouse]

Casper Lindley: She can't be serious, can she? Vaporize the whole damn planet?
Buckaroo Banzai: You wanna roll all those dice, Casper?
Casper Lindley: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not me, man, not me.

[swatbuznik]

Scientist 1: “...a warp drive could easily create a black hole that would incinerate any passengers on a space craft and then suck Earth into a black hole.”

Scientist 2: “Let’s do it.”

[Two Kids' Dad]

Dude, just buy a Nissan Pulsar and install a Zenith in it. You’ll be mad pimpin’!

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl