[SkyDancer]

I know some warped drive drivers.

[Calvin Locke]

There's a Mexican physicist that has the idea of collapsing space in front of the vehicle, and expanding it behind.

As usual, the devil's in the details.

[DannyTN]

I call dibs on Protos VI

[Gay State Conservative]

Aye,Captain...the dilithium crystals are burnin’ up...

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[JimRed]

So at warp 5 you’re going five times the speed of light? What happens when you hit a baseball sized chunk of space debris at that velocity?

[Mr. K]

Of course it is.

The alien vehicles Bob Lazar worked on at Area 51 HAD IT.

He was thought to be a kook- but he revealed Area 51 AND Papoose Lake. And he turned out to be right. No one knew about this before.

I have a degree in Physics- I’ve listened to him talk- he has never made a ‘science’ mistake, and clearly recognized advanced topics when a caller brought them up.

For example, a guy tried to ask him a question on Art Bell once, and Lazar immediately knew “The Seebeck Effect” was what he was talking about.

[wastedyears]

Be funny if some alien race scoffs at the idea that nothing can travel faster than light.

[bigbob]

All we need is...

[tallyhoe]

I had a warped drive once..

[TBP]

“Warp 2, Mr. Sulu.”

[BitWielder1]

In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, In Practice There Is.

 - Yogi Berra

[SuperLuminal]

NBD! Back in the 40’s, the neighborhood I lived in had lots of vehicles with wop drive (mine included)...

[I want the USA back]

“creating a bubble within space-time that would twist distances”

Nothing but words with no reality behind them. “bubble within space-time” does not designate any reality. It’s assumed that he can create that. Invalid assumption.

Keep trying.

[amorphous]

As objects travel faster and faster, they get heavier and heavier—the heavier they get, the harder it is to achieve acceleration, so you never get to the speed of light," Roger Rassool, a physicist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, once told the BBC. Only things with no mass, like photons, can travel at those tremendous speeds. That certainly rules out massive ships like the Enterprise.

Yeah, well if "for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction", then the matter of the ship getting heavier will be compensated by what's thrown out the back.

So while Eisenstein's theory certainly applies to anything 'pushed' by an external force, such as occurs inside particle accelerators, etc., I'm not convinced it applies to a self-contained reaction force propulsion system.

With the very sensitive measuring devices that exist today, we should be able to devise an experiment that proves or disproves that self-contained reaction force propulsion systems are also affected.

Besides the above, such an experiment would also serve to establish a new speed record for something built by mankind, among other worthwhile science packages that could be attached to such a craft/probe to offset the cost. :-)

[Political Junkie Too]

... creating a bubble within space-time that would twist distances...

Yeah, but after warp 5, space begins to crack.

-PJ

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Seriously? If these ‘scientists’ are so d@mn smart, WHERE is my Flying Car? Huh? Huh?

I’ve been WAITING since 1960! ;)

[Rudolphus]

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.

[COBOL2Java]

Isn't that the speed at which classified information leaks out of Adam Schiff?

[Magnum44]

I once did the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs....