Posted on 09/27/2019 10:52:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
As soon as I see that the author does not use the term “Theory” and its derivatives properly the author loses all credibility in my eyes. This author may pose a hypothesis but certainly not a theory. In the science community this is a big bad, analogous to how the firearms community looks upon those who don’t know the difference between a “magazine” and a “clip.”
Theory, hypothesis, and law are all different terms with different uses and meanings easy enough to look up on the internet.
What happens to any object that happens to be located between those two places, in the warp corridor (or whatever name they give the path)?
What happens to any object that happens to be located between those two places, in the warp corridor (or whatever name they give the path)?
This is from a "science writer"? Does Einstein's Theory of Relativity cause global warming? What a moron.
Something to think about.
The Alcubierre Drive is being promoted by a project called “100 Year Starship”. Their goal is to achieve an interstellar mission within 100 years from their founding in 2010.
A faster than light interstellar starship will not be powered by solar, wind, biomass, or batteries.
At a minimum, nuclear fusion is required. More realistically, antimatter power is required.
If we can build an Alcubierre Drive powered starship in 100 years, it means we will have solved all of the world’s energy problems well before then.
Robert Goddard launched his first liquid fueled rocket using gasoline and liquid oxygen in 1926. It would be another 31 years before launch of Sputnik 1.
The petroleum fuel industry dates to the mid-1800s, roughy 75 years before Goddard fueled his rocket with petroleum distillates.
Realistically, an Alcubierre Drive powered starship is more than 100 years away, but equally realistically, energy from nuclear fusion is closer than 50 years away. And cheaper, safer, advanced fission is less than 20 years away.
Where do you want humanity to be 200, 100, 50, or 20 years from now?
I just don’t know how going backward to windmills and burning wood (biomass) gets us to the future.
Actually, if I remember my star trek 101 class correctly, warp factor 5 is light speed raised to the 5th, not 5 times light speed. Roddenberry was actually pretty close to estimating what speeds would be necessary to make interstellar space travel possible in a human beings life time.
I thought it was ‘raised to the power of’. Isnt that why it was called warp factor 5?
How do you avoid asteroids, and other projectiles floating around space. Would you just pass thru? makes no sense.
I think its just “drive fast, take chances”. LOL
Energy is matter. This means particles of matter will be forming at the quantum level all the time. This bullshit is ridiculous as we currently understand physics and how to manipulate our universe with our technologies.
But how long did it take?
Everybody knows that the fastest thing in the universe is a bill the exact moment you’re flat broke.
I don’t recall, I put it on autopilot and watched a season of “Married with Children” on the big screen cable. Why do you think that dish is on top? :)
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