stooopid travels at Ludicrous speed...
Posted on 11/29/2013 7:58:18 PM PST by Star Traveler
HOUSTON — Beyond the security gate at the Johnson Space Center’s 1960s-era campus here, inside a two-story glass and concrete building with winding corridors, there is a floating laboratory.
Harold G. White, a physicist and advanced propulsion engineer at NASA, beckoned toward a table full of equipment there on a recent afternoon: a laser, a camera, some small mirrors, a ring made of ceramic capacitors and a few other objects.
He and other NASA engineers have been designing and redesigning these instruments, with the goal of using them to slightly warp the trajectory of a photon, changing the distance it travels in a certain area, and then observing the change with a device called an interferometer. So sensitive is their measuring equipment that it was picking up myriad earthly vibrations, including people walking nearby. So they recently moved into this lab, which floats atop a system of underground pneumatic piers, freeing it from seismic disturbances.
The team is trying to determine whether faster-than-light travel — warp drive — might someday be possible.
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True true.
Didn’t the French do this exact same thing seven or eight years ago to show that paired photons remain quantum-bound even if they travel different distances? They produce the same interference pattern as paired photons which arrive at the same time.
Why would we be spending all this money to show the French were right?
Don’t put any money into it until we see whether he actually DOES go away in January 2017.
As slick as the ‘rats changed the senate rules recently, I’ll be surprised if they don’t change some more and if he isn’t declared President in perpetuity and NEVER leaves.
stooopid travels at Ludicrous speed...
So, If we already know the speed of light…What then is the speed of darkness?
dat’s racist!
It will happen—but it might take another 300 years.
Wanna bet ? Three hundred years from today....
Spooky action at a distance.
No dilithium crystal?
Look up 'Falcon 9'.
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light except for bad news which obeys rules of it own”
Douglas Adams
NASA’s budget had been cut to the bone, then Sequestration cut it even further. We do not pursue greatness through research or space exploration any longer. Americans worship at the altar of Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social Security Disability, Medicare, ObamaCare, EITC cash refunds, Section 8 housing vouchers, TANF Welfare, and Unemployment checks.
“Perhaps, but such research is worthwhile if it could translate to the proliferation of our species across the galaxy.”
Humans as we know them will never live unprotected on another world. We developed and live in a soup of microorganisms. Our defenses were evolved to allow us to survive in THAT soup. Add one new organism to that soup and our defenses will not recognize it in time to stop it from giving us terminal Vegan Foot Rot.
Can’t have anything that shows American Exceptionalism.
Space is a convenient word used for the absence of things. Space is not something. Space can not be expanded.
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