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NASA May Have Accidentally Created a Warp Field (MAY)
mysteriousuniverse.org ^ | 4/24/2015 | mysteriousuniverse.org

Posted on 04/24/2015 10:35:10 PM PDT by Dallas59

“Star Trek” introduced the world outside of rocket science circles to the concept of warp drive – the propulsion system that allowed the starship Enterprise to travel faster than the speed of light. Warp speed is the holy grail that would let us explore the universe safely surrounded and protected by a space-distorting warp field. After watching the SpaceX rocket recently just try to land on a platform, you’d think this ability is years if not decades away. Yet the buzz on space websites is that NASA may have accidentally discovered a way to create a warp field. Wait, what?

To get around the theory of relativity, physicist Miguel Alcubierre came up with the concept of a bubble of spacetime which travels faster than the speed of light while the ship inside of it is stationary. The bubble contracts spacetime in front of the ship and expands it behind it. The warp drive would look like a football inside a flat ring. The tremendous amount of energy it would need made this idea prohibitive until Harold “Sonny” White of NASA’s Johnson Space Center calculated that making the ring into a donut shape would significant reduce the energy needs.



TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Science
KEYWORDS: alcubierre; blackholes; miguelalcubierre; nasa; spaceexploration; speedofdark; stringtheory; superluminal; warp
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To: lafroste

Plus it’s sitting on blocks. Built in a trailer court?


41 posted on 04/25/2015 7:18:19 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: ClearCase_guy

Passengers.


42 posted on 04/25/2015 7:51:52 AM PDT by mcshot (I pray someone comes forth with the strength, fortitude and burning desire to save our Republic)
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To: Dallas59

First off this does nothing to make Muslims feel good about themselves.

Second, they will never achieve ludicrous speed.


43 posted on 04/25/2015 7:55:38 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: PA Engineer

I’ve crossed the Lambo off my Santa list and upgraded it to that!


44 posted on 04/25/2015 8:05:13 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: Lysandru

Where are we going?

Planet 10

When?

REAL SOON!


45 posted on 04/25/2015 9:41:36 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Transdimensional coffee, the 4th dimension of caffeine.


46 posted on 04/25/2015 10:47:22 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
The only ones opposed to our development of superluminal transports are the uniphysicists.

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47 posted on 04/26/2015 10:58:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: PA Engineer

I think that Dyson guy already made one.


48 posted on 04/26/2015 11:05:40 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: PIF

How do you manage to link to something that doesn’t exist?


49 posted on 04/26/2015 11:07:19 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph

They seem to have removed the page - why I do not know.

Try this one: http://rt.com/usa/177204-nasa-space-drive-emdrive/

or
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2006/04/evaluating-nasas-futuristic-em-drive/

Hurry! They may delete those pages also ...


50 posted on 04/26/2015 12:01:49 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

LOL! Thanks!


51 posted on 04/26/2015 12:08:47 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Sgt_Schultze
How can they have warp if they haven’t invented impulse yet?

Hhadda you mean? I had an impulse just last night to go to the fridg and get some ice cream!

52 posted on 04/26/2015 3:47:38 PM PDT by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: Dallas59
EVE beatcha to it
53 posted on 07/25/2015 8:35:42 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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