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.
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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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.
Let me be the first to say (in my best Scottish brogue): “We need more power!”
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.
Does it require work by community organizers and/or the Muslim brotherhood then no thanks. I’ll wait for alcubierre to develop it himself.
2012 and I am still walking on the pavement.
psss!
“Cosmological inflation”? The price of stuff really went up, then. Used to be you could buy a pound of dark matter for ten or twelve parsnips (parsnips are the universal currency). Along comes cosmological inflation, and you couldn’t touch a teaspoon of dark matter for less than a hundred parsnips.
A major problem with traveling at these speeds is a simple one: while space is almost all vacuum, there is debri in space, and the higher the travel speed, the more likely of, in time, colliding with a piece of something in space......
And the technology to detect such debri in time to alter course at such high speeds I believe will be impossible.
Who is willing to spend years traveling in space only to be wiped out by a small piece of space debri that would demolish a vessel traveling as such speeds?
” Mind you, we don’t know how to get that quantity either, but it feels a more likely prospect.”
End of story
How will this be tested? You turn it on in a lab and the lab folds up on itself along with half a city.
>> was about 30 million billion times the speed of light...
Only if we could ride our debt.
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