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Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say
SPACE.com ^
| 2012-09-17
| Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 09/17/2012 10:28:10 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: justlurking
So to alleviate the device's requiring prohibitive amounts of energy to operate, it just needs to be made out of particles that haven't even been encountered.
Nice.
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09/17/2012 10:33:39 AM PDT
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Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: justlurking
This ring, potentially made of exotic matter, would cause space-time to warp around the starship Um, sure. I'm guessing that that "exotic matter" would be along the lines of unicorns that have been ground up and put through an atomic accelerator or some such. It has been a long time since I read any science fiction.
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:36:03 AM PDT
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mc5cents
To: Renderofveils
What about the effects on the human body during acceleration/deceleration?
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:36:08 AM PDT
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Las Vegas Ron
(Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
To: Renderofveils
If it is imaginable then it is entirely possible. People once used to scoff at all sorts of things that we now take for granted so I’m not going to be so quick to dismiss this. If the particles needed have not been encountered, but have been postulated, then at least we now know what we’re looking for.
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09/17/2012 10:37:18 AM PDT
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MeganC
(The Cinemark theatre in Aurora, CO is a 'Gun Free Zone'. Spread the word.)
To: Las Vegas Ron
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:38:05 AM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
To: justlurking
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:38:19 AM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: Renderofveils; KevinDavis; SunkenCiv
Space, science, sci-fi pings?
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09/17/2012 10:39:09 AM PDT
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GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: justlurking
Intriguing, thanks for posting.
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09/17/2012 10:39:13 AM PDT
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agere_contra
(Vote ABO. Don't choose the Greater Evil and then boast about how principled you are)
To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis
Science ping! 8-)
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09/17/2012 10:42:07 AM PDT
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skinkinthegrass
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To: Renderofveils
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:42:16 AM PDT
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Lazamataz
(RAGE MONKEY RULEZ!!!)
To: Renderofveils
So to alleviate the device's requiring prohibitive amounts of energy to operate, it just needs to be made out of particles that haven't even been encountered. You don't have any unobtainium in your garage?
Seriously, the "original" Alcubierre drive also relies on exotic matter. The "breakthrough" that is claimed in this article is that modification of the geometry of the warp bubble reduces the energy requirement from "astronomical" to merely "large".
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09/17/2012 10:42:22 AM PDT
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justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
To: Renderofveils
So to alleviate the device's requiring prohibitive amounts of energy to operate, it just needs to be made out of particles that haven't even been encountered.
We've known that all along.
Dilithium Crystals
As the key element in all Federation warp engine designs, the dilithium crystal mediates the reaction between the matter and anti-matter in a starship's main engine core.
Dilithium is the only material known to be non-reactive with antimatter when subjected to a high frequency electromagnetic (EM) field, rendering it "porous" to antihydrogen.
Dilithium permits antimatter to pass directly through it's crystalline structure without actually coming into contact with it, due to a field dynamo effect.
Once found only in nature, the technology of the 24th Century antieutectics enables the formation of pure, synthesized dilithium and dilithium matrix re-crystallization through the use of high energy photon injection.
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:43:16 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: MeganC
If it is imaginable then it is entirely possible. People once used to scoff at all sorts of things that we now take for granted so Im not going to be so quick to dismiss this. If the particles needed have not been encountered, but have been postulated, then at least we now know what were looking for.
There are certain aspects of physics where I agree with this. But things that are theoretically possible are not always realistically possible. You can theoretically create an environment in which a perpetual motion machine will work.
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09/17/2012 10:43:41 AM PDT
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Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: Las Vegas Ron
Should be zero. You are “in” the bubble. The bubble is what is in motion. Your local bubbble-space/time reference wouldn’t change.
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:43:56 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: justlurking
But does it run on “Green” energy?
If not, it won’t get Obama support. /s
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09/17/2012 10:44:49 AM PDT
by
nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: Las Vegas Ron
What about the effects on the human body during acceleration/deceleration?
There isn't any. You're warping spacetime, not moving through it. From the perspective of the central pod, you're not moving.
To: justlurking
This has to be an established concept/theory. Or just a massive coincidence that shows like Star Trek have been using “Ringships” for 30+ years now.
To: Las Vegas Ron
"What about the effects on the human body during acceleration/deceleration?"The spaceship isn't traveling near the speed of light. It's traveling a normal spaceship speed. It's just warping space in front of it. So that instead of going A-B-C-D-E. It's just going A-E.
It's like bending the earth so that New York City is suddenly next to Nashville. You can go from Music Row to Broadway and Back in an hour, without ever going over 60.
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posted on
09/17/2012 10:46:52 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: Dead Corpse
If your in a “bubble” and the bubble is set in motion, you would feel the same energy as the bubble.
Just as you feel acceleration in a car, or the Astronauts felt lifting off of the Moon.
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09/17/2012 10:47:09 AM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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