"She's gone from suck to blow"
Posted on 06/23/2009 6:17:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
"Star Trek" makes faster-than-light travel look easy, but according to new calculations by Italian physicists, a warp drive could easily create a black hole that would incinerate any passengers on a space craft and then suck Earth into a black hole. "Warp drives are so far the best case scenario to attain faster-than-light travel," said Stefano Finazzi of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies. This paper "makes it much harder to realize, if not almost impossible, warp drives." ...Other physicists agree with the Italians' calculations, up to a point. "It's a good paper; their results are sound," said Gerald Cleaver, a professor of physics at Baylor University who reviewed the work. The results make sense, at least, when creating warp drive using exotic matter in a universe where 1 plus 1 equals 2. In a universe where 1 plus 1 equals 3, a possibility with string theory instead of the semi classical physics used by the Italians, a stable warp drive is viable. Last year Cleaver and co-author Richard Obousy detailed a string theory-based warp drive that creates a bubble of space time by expanding one of the tiny, rolled-up dimensions (instead of a bubble of dark energy) predicted by string theory. The biggest sticking point to a extra dimension-based warp drive? The entire mass of Jupiter would have to be converted into pure energy to power it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
Turns out we can reverse the effect with a Evird Praw. Dang, that was close.
It turtles all the way down you know...
"She's gone from suck to blow"
i suppose starting it a goodly distance AWAY from earth would be tooo much to ask...
Right on!!!
Those calculations I bet assume Newton’s G at small scale when in fact G
may be G* ~ 10^40 times larger than Newton’s G on the relevant
micro-scale! Note that 10^20 is square root of 10^40 so that a quantum
gravity effect of order (Lp*/L) scales as (G*/G)^1/2
s/o
Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole
Daffy Duck (Duck Dodgers): “Whoops...had the silly thing in reverse” Batta-bing
/johnny
The Zenith Pulsar is kind of difficult to get..... but, it might be doable ...
I’m more worried about Chicago!
“Warp Drive Engine Could Suck Earth Into Black Hole”
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But, wouldn’t we just come out the other side... ? LOL...
Well... damn.
So what you’re saying is, I shouldn’t have bought 1,000 shares of Allied Warp Systems at $95 a share.
Note to self: quit buying particle accelerator and warp drive plans off of the internet.
Psssst. Hey bud, look, I got these drive plans here, only slightly used, at that by a major manufacturer, if I told
you the name you’d recognize them right off the bat.
Look these are good plans, government plans, but keep it
under your hat ok?
I call this the “TARP” drive and I can let you have it cheap
just write me at Obama.surplusdrives.gov
My understanding is that the TARP drive creates paper out of thin air and printing presses and can cause an uncontrolled economic implosion if activated..... I dunnno.
/johnny
Yes, but would anybody really miss it?
No, I’m afraid it is the black hole that will swallow the earth!
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