Posted on 11/01/2017 12:10:53 AM PDT by LibWhacker
No, just the people from other parallel worlds will be demanding retribution for this world’s theft of their resources.
Has anyone calculated how long it takes to get up to the speed of light without putting humans under unnatural G forces? Then, calculate the time it takes to slow down. Our present natural gravitational force is 16 feet/second squared.
Not to be too pedantic here but ft/s^2 is not a force it is an acceleration. And the value you site is wrong for the gravitational acceleration at the Earth's surface. It is 9.81 m/s^2, 32.17405 ft/s^2.
Nonetheless; my calculation says that at 9.8m/s^2 it would take 0.95 years to get to the speed of light. This calculation is based on classical mechanics not taking into account relativistic effects.
Like future generations will demand retribution for leaving them with impossible debt?
So this is another ‘cold fusion’ type pipe dream?
Our President has hinted obliquely at this several times.
And taking relativity into account? What then? Earth’s time? Traveler’s time?
Can't get there from here. ;o)
Even if this works, what power source is used to generate the MW field? How much current is needed to create and effective thrust? How efficient is it? Does it require a power cord running to a nuclear station on earth ( sarc)?
If the force produced is in fact real, how “forceful” is it? ( Will it take moments or years to accelerate to useful velocity?)
Why not invent diLithium crystals and Warp dives? Or even impulse drives? We could plod along at .5 C at least, in “ limp home” mode. Oh, yeah, and invent hibernation too, or else we need cattle and hydroponic fields to tag along for the eons it would take to get anywhere....
2001 (a Space Odyssey) is already 16 years past and here we are still anchored to earth. C’mon scientists, get off your fourth points of contact!
Respectfully,
Luddite
Taking the rest of physics into account we can’t get going that fast. Super7 could probably explain it better but it is hardly worth the time. The point is all known workable drive systems have a maximum theoretical speed well below C.
Hey, is that a pun?
To explore the closest systems to us we need at least, AT LEAST light speed travel. Even then we’ll need self contained biospheres for the years in space humans will be subjected to. To efficiently explore systems close to us we need FTL, which may not be possible.
The first thing we need is to be able to get things into space cheap. It’s too expensive to get massive objects into space but that’s what we need. A space elevator, or some really cheap fuel.
Cold fusion isn’t a pipe dream.
We can start a cold fusion reaction. We have.
Great reply. This means, if one were to accelerate to the speed of lignt, one would not want to do it quickly. Likewise, they would have to slow down at a rate where inertia does not kill the humans or put them under unnatural forces. Ideally, both acceleration and deceleration would be at ideal rates to cause inertia forces to match the gravitation humans are used to on Earth. By you calculations, you use up almost two years in acceleration and deceleration. Alpha Centari is 4.367 light years away. You add two more years for the inertia effects.
That depends on your reference frame.
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