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I wrote the book on warp drive. No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble.
Big Think ^ | 12/9/2021 | Ethan Siegel

Posted on 12/12/2021 12:43:38 PM PST by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 12/12/2021 12:43:38 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

A lack of appropriately healthy skepticism is how we wind up with scams and charlatans.


Everything is BS until proven otherwise...............


2 posted on 12/12/2021 12:46:25 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: LibWhacker

“There is such a thing as a tesseract”.

(That’s just for fun)

Really, this isn’t sloppy science as Feynmam described.

It’s charlatanism.


3 posted on 12/12/2021 12:49:25 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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“There is such a thing as a tesseract”.

Or a wrinkle in time..


4 posted on 12/12/2021 12:53:03 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

Yes.


5 posted on 12/12/2021 12:54:01 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: LibWhacker

If you put the matter/energy in the back end of the spacecraft and put the anti matter/negative energy in the front, and mix them in the middle, something WILL happen.

5.56mm


6 posted on 12/12/2021 12:56:11 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: LibWhacker

“Science is not about what you hope is true; it’s not about the way you’d like reality to be; it’s not about what your gut tells you; and it’s not about the patterns you can almost see when you ignore the quantitative details.”

‘Want’ and ‘hope’ don’t always refer to a positive desire. They can refer to a desire that something go wrong - very wrong - from some sociopathic desire for vengeance, superiority, or other form of blame/karma. Example: desiring natural disasters, motivated by a desire to blame humanity.


7 posted on 12/12/2021 12:58:50 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: LibWhacker

What looks fine on paper doesn’t always turn out that way in practice.


8 posted on 12/12/2021 1:06:23 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: LibWhacker
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

"Nature will not be fooled."

9 posted on 12/12/2021 1:12:09 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: LibWhacker

Sorry, that was me. I had a burrito for lunch.


10 posted on 12/12/2021 1:27:18 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: LibWhacker

Thanks for the post. When I saw the article last week about the warp drive being accidentally created/invented I figured that was baloney. I mean, COVID-19 wasn’t accidental.


11 posted on 12/12/2021 1:27:31 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: LibWhacker

Its obvious from his piece he hasn’t met Michael Poole yet. Maybe Poole hasn’t been born yet. Either way.


12 posted on 12/12/2021 1:55:05 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: LibWhacker
cience is not about what you hope is true; it’s not about the way you’d like reality to be; it’s not about what your gut tells you; and it’s not about the patterns you can almost see when you ignore the quantitative details.

Dr Fauci is the example.

13 posted on 12/12/2021 2:05:21 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe "",,,,)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Wow, someone's full of *them*selves.

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"Truth is usually just an excuse for lack of an imagination."

14 posted on 12/12/2021 2:09:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

Is it even possible? Yes, it is.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

15 posted on 12/12/2021 2:10:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Dr. Siegel’s critique of a simulated nano-sized warp bubble is notable. The title and abstract (Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry ...) is misleading and if the reader is not careful, it could be inferred that an actual observable experiment took place. Modeling and simulation has its place but not at the expense of testable empirical evidence. Thanks for the clarification.

I find the idea of advanced aerospace vehicles via manipulation of the spacetime metric fascinating (with right eyebrow raised). The Albucierre solution demonstrated that warp bubble propulsion is physically realizable, at least in theory. The 2019 FOIA release from the DIA outlined many promising research projects regarding warp drive, exotic materials, wormholes, stargates, cloaking devices, even metallic glass [1].

I find the infiltration of motivated reasoning in science to be deeply troubling, from the academic world, to the scientific community and now into the medical arena. One prime example is “catastrophic climate change” driven by model simulation alone without considering the empirical evidence (current observational and Paleoclimate). Trying to predict the climate 80 years into the future when current long-range weather models cannot predict accurately beyond one week is insanity. CO2 is a trace gas, not a pollutant, it’s plant food resulting in greater crop yields. The war on fossil fuels is senseless and will lead to suffering and misery. The greater threat is global cooling which may be realized by the end of this decade (weaker solar cycle).

Now we have mRNA “vaccines” that cannot prevent infection, transmission to others or serious illness including death. If the vaccines work, why aren’t they working?

-Frank

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts. Richard Feynman

1. https://irp.fas.org/dia/aatip-list.pdf


16 posted on 12/12/2021 2:25:15 PM PST by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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To: LibWhacker

Wormholes are problematic for space travel, in theory, because they tend to destroy the craft inside.
—-——-———————————

That would be a problem.


17 posted on 12/12/2021 2:36:14 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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(Wormholes are problematic for space travel, in theory, because they tend to destroy the craft inside.)

Wormholes do present stability problems, tidal forces and such. But Kerr blackholes contain a ring singularity and if the Stargate could impart rotational energy to stabilize the wormhole, safe transport would be possible inside of the ring.

The beauty of Warp Drive is that inertial mass inside of the bubble would be zero. External inertial dampeners would be required for sub-warp propulsion but not for Warp Drive because of a balance between gravity ahead (attractive) and anti-gravity behind (repulsive) the advanced aerospace vehicle (AAV).

In addition, my understanding is that general relativity is an extension of special relativity with the realization that acceleration is equivalent to the force of gravity.

How does the Heisenberg Compensator work? Very well thank you.

Ackshully, location is important here but not velocity, using tachyon technology to map past and future sub-atomic particle positions. Hat tip to Thomas Evans.


18 posted on 12/12/2021 3:34:59 PM PST by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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To: thepoodlebites

Quantum entanglement could be another solution to the teleportation problem.


19 posted on 12/12/2021 3:47:33 PM PST by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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To: LibWhacker

Jeez looked at the replies... No Scotty in the engine room pics? We are getting lazy...


20 posted on 12/12/2021 4:42:14 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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