Posted on 05/10/2009 5:46:33 PM PDT by KevinDavis
One of Star Treks lasting contributions to our cultural consciousness is the idea of faster than light travel. Even after Einstein's general theory of relativity proved that no object could travel faster than the speed of light, the idea that we could one day just zap ourselves to the other side of the galaxy refused to go away.
Now, two scientists at Baylor University in the United States believe they have an idea that can turn travelling at the speed of light from science fiction to science, without breaking any rules of physics.
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I let my brother read the first one, and he said, “Man, what kind of drugs was that guy on when he wrote that.” lol
Light could go faster if it didn’t stop to wave....
freeking highlarious!!!
It is..sort of. The warp drive forms the warp bubble around the nacelles radiating outward, then the impulse drive pushes the ship forward in the bubble. Before it can hit the front of the bubble, the warp drive reforms the bubble.
All this may have changed because the series Enterprise changed some canon and the new movie looks like it rewrites the whole story from scratch. I stopped being an “official” Trekkie when someone decided that “Trekkie” isn’t cool and “Trekker” is. (Either one marks you as a nerd, so what’s the difference? Revel in your nerd-dom, Trekkies and Trekkers!)
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