Posted on 01/08/2025 6:41:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Ok, that may work for sending a spacecraft - but how do we get it back?
What happens to humans inside it?
How do we communicate with the craft when it’s light-years away? Just wait light-years for a reply?
Duh.......
Quantum Communications......................
“The problem with ‘Physicist’ is that their heads are full of protons, neutrons and electrons... What they aren’t full of is any common sense.”
Without physicists you wouldn’t have the capability to post such stupid comments.
It seems they could test this technology by sending a small probe to the moon or Mars. They have to figure out stopping, landing and/or returning and countless other issues.
Does the space probe accelerate to the halfway point and then start braking the next half?
I’m pretty sure that if no physicist had ever existed, I would still be here.
In fact... I am here despite those physicist who have created weapons of such mass destruction that they will likely eliminate the majority of life on earth if they are ever used. They haven’t been used... Yet!
Wait for it.
“I’m pretty sure that if no physicist had ever existed, I would still be here.
In fact... I am here despite those physicist who have created weapons of such mass destruction that they will likely eliminate the majority of life on earth if they are ever used. They haven’t been used... Yet!
Wait for it.”
How old are you? You sound like the radicals of the 60’s.
There is nothing radical about it... I’m fully aware that nuclear weapons have prevented war since 1945... But I’m also fully aware and not too foolish to think that some bonehead who may not even be born yet, will eventually use those weapons.
You can’t dis-invent the wheel... They’re round everywhere and used everywhere and somebody will eventually use those weapons. Hopefully not in my lifetime, but in somebodies and after they are we are done as a species... We won’t be travelling to any star system anytime ever.
“https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-is-the-movie-The-Forecaster-to-Martin-Armstrongs-life“
Where were you in 1945?
“I’m pretty sure that if no physicist had ever existed, I would still be here.
In fact... I am here despite those physicist who have created weapons of such mass destruction “
Those events changed history. If you were born after 1945 you owe your existence to that altered history.
Thailand.......?
And if a caveman stepped on a certain butterfly that would’ve changed history too... The what ifs are enormous... But time travel never happened and never will... If it did, we would know it by now.
This will cut the trip to the nearest star system from 100,000 years down to just 90,000 years. Oh, and then add on another 90,000 years for the return trip to earth when the crew finds out that the star system has NO habitable planets.
Good thinking...
A worthwhile research and development effort...
OTOH, in addition, maybe that group that claimed to identify the the “shape” of a photon could design the engine-beam photons into arrowheads so that beam spreading would be resolved...
Why does beam spreading happen in the first place? Even laser light does it, just on a smaller scale, but why?
According to physics, it’s the ‘wave-like’ property of light that causes it.
But light has two properties, the other being the ‘particle-like’ property.
The photons are reacting with something...................
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That’s even MORE idiotic.
The US can NOT afford it.
The US national debt now threatens to swallow the entire solar system!
Hello! Is anybody home?
Super-Fast Space Travel Would Kill You in Minutes
Speed kills. Literally.
YES! Electron beams!!! That should scare the aliens.
I didn’t say we could afford Greenland, I said Trump won’t attack Greenland.
Now you say you’d rather attack Greenland than buy it. You must be crazy.
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