NASA starts building faster-than-light warp engine

rt.com ^ | 7/24/13 | Rt.com

[Dead Corpse]

Or... You know... Not anything quite that energetic...

http://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html

But yeah, hang 10... Er... Dude.

[Theophilus]

It’s the only way to reach the escape velocity of our ludicrous debt.

[ElkGroveDan]

This is akin to setting up a single piston/cylinder with some compressed gas to prove the theory that a V8 ICE is feasible in theory.

No it's not. It's akin to experimenting with hydrocarbon vapors to see how flammable they are.

[MHGinTN]

The key to 'violating' that equation is to look at the t factor inherent in both the V² and the c² ... look at how time is treated in both of the velocity expressions. If dimension Time has variable expressions (and it does, we just don't take them into consideration yet), then nibbling at the "t" is the key.

[Dead Corpse]

Not quite, but you are entitled to your pinion...

[MHGinTN]

Actually, no. A rapidly spinning black hole would just be dragging spacetime into distortion. What is needed is a bubble that isolates the time and space of the occupied craft from the spacetime of the 'vacuum' because it is the inertial effect from the vacuum that causes the speed limit for photons. Since a photon exists as a wave packet (the function of a wave packet if you wish) it is 'held' by the temporal stasis of the vacuum.

When the Universe began, as soon as matter appeared time took hold.

Think what happens to a photon as it crosses the Universe. It remains in a null path, a temporal suspension, always in the present of the source at the moment it is created/expelled. Time does not pass for the photon. What happens when it reaches a source/impacts a sensor? What happens to the time component of the photon packet? What does the photon 'release' such that it is sensed? It isn't inertia because the photon arrives without mass.

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

We’ll promote it as the wonderful socialist universe that they see in Star Trek.

I want to follow them at a safe distance and watch what happens when they make first contact with another spacefaring species. It should be fun to watch.