Warp drive looks more promising than ever in recent NASA studies

GizMag ^ | October 3, 2012 | Dr. Brian Dodson

[GeronL]

even if pacetime were barely bent a tiny amount, we could see a prove shoot past Voyager 1 like it was sitting still.

Even a little could see us roam the solar system at will, even if other stars would still be too far away.

[skinkinthegrass]

science ping. :)

[dayglored]

> ... velocity of spacetime expansion during the period of cosmological inflation was about 30 million billion times the speed of light...

And here I thought the speed of light was the universal speed limit. Travel 30 million billion times faster???!?

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Interstellar Highway Patrol Officer: Do you know why I stopped you?

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[Riley]

Acceleration and deceleration stresses would have to be handled somehow- as would unexpected collisions with stray bits of mass in space, unless the bubble has some interesting properties of its own.

[skinkinthegrass]

..missed it by that much! :-D

[Riley]

Interstellar Highway Patrol Officer: Do you know why I stopped you?

Actually officer, I'd like to know how you stopped me.

[GeronL]

heh!

[fhayek]

Let me be the first to say (in my best Scottish brogue): “We need more power!”

[GeronL]

Even if we could build a vessel that could travel at 0.1% of the speed of light, we can colonize this entire solar system at will.

[cripplecreek]

I had a physics conversation with my nephew the other day. It ended with him saying his physics prof would hate me. He teaches basic classical physics that don’t like to be jiggled around.

I simply pointed out that a point in space has no physical speed limit.

[coloradan]

It’s the universal speed limit for material objects; spacetime isn’t a material object.

[fhayek]

Building a vessel is one thing. Having human beings withstand the G-forces is another thing altogether.

[Darksheare]

“WHy, I simply increased local gravity to infinity and it shut down your drives ability to create forward momentum. Look, you’re still at fulll throttle. Here’s your ticket. Time dialation fine increments may be incurred.”

[GeronL]

There would be no G-forces inside of the bubble, nothing is actually moving inside the bubble

[Riley]

Hundred bucks for every ten over.

That takes care of the debt problem, right there.

[skinkinthegrass]

ggrrr.... :)

[babygene]

“Even if we could build a vessel that could travel at 0.1% of the speed of light, we can colonize this entire solar system at will.”

How so? The place still has to be livable...

[Vaquero]

Does it require work by community organizers and/or the Muslim brotherhood then no thanks. I’ll wait for alcubierre to develop it himself.

[Darksheare]

Ouch.
“That’ll be twenty petillion dollars, sign here.”