Posted on 05/18/2021 12:11:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
Trump proved WARP SPEED was possible.
This associate professor does not have a good handle on what is real physics versus speculative fiction.
At the g-force a human body can withstand, how long would it take to reach lightspeed?
I tried a calculation and came up with just under 71 days at 5gs. I am not the least bit confident in my calculations. I am also not sure a human could withstand a 5 g-force for extended periods of time without causing severe damage.
I find this all fascinating. I hope to see it happen in reality before I take my dirt nap.
Star Fleet has declared Talos IV to be off limits.
Space Force has yet to make a decision.
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Raisa would be busy!
Galaxy Quest is all in.
I’d try for the Vorlon home world via hyperspace.
Cannot assume Einstein’s theory is the end all to light and travel.
The thing is, if you read Einstein carefully, he never says that gravity is produced by warping space. Never; not a single time. It's a common misunderstanding of his theory, but it's not a part of relativity at all.
What Einstein said is that gravity is an effect of warped spacetime, and he also agreed with you that space itself is not a physical thing that could be warped or compressed.
So if spacetime is just a combination of time and space, and the space itself cannot be warped, then that only leaves the time element. That is the thing that is actually being warped to produce the effect we see as gravity. Gravity is an effect of warped time, not warped space.
Now, since time is just something we use to measure rates of change it might seem just as nonsensical to talk about warping time as it does to talk about warping space. But essentially what it comes down to is that things change at different rates depending on the density of matter and energy in their vicinity. Now why that is happening is the real question!
Flying cars can happen now. They’re just logistically useless. So they’ll never happen.
My best selection would be “Shore Leave Planet” in the Omicron Delta region.............. You are only limited by your imagination....................
My luck I’d end up on the Vogon home world stuck listening to their poetry !
Yes, but the warp drive skirts that problem because it doesn’t actually accelerate any matter at all. The matter that is inside the warp bubble remains perfectly still, while the bubble of space itself is what gets accelerated.
It’s only been 40 years or so since I stumbled through introductory physics, but that is what I was taught too.
Of course, the idea is to somehow go faster than the speed of light without ever going the speed of light. You just need to figure out how to jump from 1/2 the speed of light to 2X the speed of light without accelerating in between.
Must be why the aliens are hanging around a lot. Getting ready for First Contact once we get warp speed capability.
“Would God have created an entire universe but made it impossible for us to travel to?”
Would God let us travel anywhere else in the universe when He knows all the misery we’ve caused on this one planet he planted us on?
“he also agreed with you that space itself is not a physical thing that could be warped or compressed.”
No he didn’t.
“At the g-force a human body can withstand, how long would it take to reach lightspeed?”
The answer is: infinity. You can’t accelerate to light speed no matter how many gs your body could take.
All while being sent hither and yon completing reams of bureaucratic paperwork.
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