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Posted on 11/29/2013 7:24:42 PM PST by EveningStar
A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks — and all without violating Einstein's law of relativity. We contacted White at NASA and asked him to explain how this real life warp drive could actually work.
(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...
If I understand correctly he’s saying that the expansion/contraction of space could be much smaller than they once believed.
Instead of the mass energy of Jupiter, White believes it can be done with something the mass energy of the Voyager spacecraft. I think it would be a pretty local phenomena.
Of Course! Now why didn't I think of that??? lol
There’s a reason to read these kinds of stories from a mainline paper and NOT some sensationalist article on an unknown website ... For instance ...
The New York Times says ... “The team is trying to determine whether faster-than-light travel — warp drive — might someday be possible.”
That “sensationalist article” says ... “A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive.”
Even though a lot of people don’t like the New York Times, at least they make MORE SENSE in their articles and they are not making the wild claims that these “sensationalist” articles make ... LOL ...
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These warp-drive ideas are find and dandy, but what happens to the vehicle when matter is present in the path of motion? How is the matter moved around or shoved aside to allow the vehicle passage? Any matter ranging from hydrogen molecules to bits of dust to rocks and asteroids - it’s out there and it will have to be dealt with ...
I would think that someone called 'Star Traveler' would be more up on this stuff.
This story's been around a while now. I assure you, these folks are serious about what they're doing.
LOL
Only Scotty knows.
I think they made a basket to catch all the heads they were loping off.
Yep.
io9 has a lot of speculative stuff on it, but generally a solid read.
Since that article is a more rational article, I put it up ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3096740/posts
We take the warp drives out of the spaceships in Area 51, put them in our ship and walla problem solved.
I put up a more rational and sensible article that someone already referred to. People would be better served reading that one ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3096740/posts
Yet we STILL don’t have flying cars.
Forgive the ignorance, but how does space (nothing) expand/contract?
No one has ever visited us from the future.
“If we can figure it out at our relatively primitive level of civilization,...”
Relative to what?
First: “The period that elapsed between no aircraft and jet aircraft was about three decades.”
Then: “From Kitty Hawk to Alpha Centauri in a century?”
Did we loose a decade somewhere in there?
Kitty Hawk 1903
First Jet to fly... 1939, closer to 4 decades that three.
Alpha Centauri in 2013...Not yet, 110 years later.
(OK, my nit picking is done for the day.)
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