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To: NonValueAdded
"...Ah, the Kerry Effect!..."

Maybe the HBEC effect (High blood-ethanol content).

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Spaceship Could Fly Faster Than Light!

Travel by bubble might seem more appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light.

We're talking about the very distant future, of course.

The idea involves manipulating dark energy � the mysterious force behind the universe's ongoing expansion � to propel a spaceship forward without breaking the laws of physics.

"Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," said Gerald Cleaver, a physicist at Baylor University. "The ship would be pushed by the spatial bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the speed of light."

In theory, the universe grew faster than the speed of light for a very short time after the Big Bang, driven by the dark energy that represents about 74 percent of the total mass-energy budget in the universe. Dark matter constitutes 22 percent of the budget, and normal matter (stars, planets and everything you see) makes up the remaining 4 percent or so.

Strange as it sounds, current evidence supports the notion that the fabric of space-time can expand faster than the speed of light, because the reality in which light travels is itself expanding.
9 posted on 08/13/2008 12:26:44 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Islander7

Cool, but what happens when a speck of space lint is between you and your destination? And something larger?

A collision at light speed woould be a beetch!


20 posted on 08/13/2008 12:52:31 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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