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NASA starts building faster-than-light warp engine
rt.com ^ | 7/24/13 | Rt.com

Posted on 07/24/2013 11:36:33 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

NASA starts building faster-than-light warp engine Get short URL Published time: July 23, 2013 19:06 Edited time: July 24, 2013 14:39

Researchers at NASA’s Texas-based Johnson Space Center are trying to prove that it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light, and hope to one day build an engine that resembles the fictional Starship Enterprise.

NASA physicist and engineer Dr. Harold G. White, 43, believes it is possible to bend the rules of time and space that Albert Einstein constructed when he postulated that it is impossible to exceed the speed of light.

White's research is based on the theories of Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, who in 1994 theorized that exceeding Einstein’s galactic speed limit was possible if scientists discovered a way to harness the expansion and contraction of space. And Harold and his team are trying to do just that.

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Obama put moslems in charge of NASA.

What could go wrong?


101 posted on 07/24/2013 3:14:57 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Child's play.

Build a standard rocket engine, then ...

insert "expansion and contraction of space" harness mechanism somewhere between the inlet and outlet nozzles.

Woooosh, there you go.

102 posted on 07/24/2013 3:15:14 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Palin was right (again)!)
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To: Mark17

The NASA standard is FTML


103 posted on 07/24/2013 3:36:26 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: Lou L
". . . they're going to "try to prove" something by building something?? "

Oh, Hell no. They know better than that but they also knows what wins grant money and gets funding requests approved.

104 posted on 07/24/2013 3:37:16 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: bert

Good Gawd...I’ll never quote Scotty again on this site.


105 posted on 07/24/2013 4:08:54 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: illiac
If it is faster than light, how can they keep up with it to build it....

Good question but for what it's worth, they won't need headlights.......That'll save some bucks.

106 posted on 07/24/2013 4:10:37 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: Tenacious 1
We'll be long dead before these fun things come to pass.

True, but I want to see what the state of the art is in 2060. I should be pushing about 20 years old around then ;-)

107 posted on 07/24/2013 6:01:34 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: equaviator
Does anybody really know what time it is?

It's an apparency only.

108 posted on 07/24/2013 6:05:07 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: D_Idaho
Don’t forget, they will also need to invent artificial gravity and inertial dampeners too.

Not if we figure out how to keep an object in a static position, then move the space around it.

In the end, I think the solution to FTL travel will involve something like that.

109 posted on 07/24/2013 6:09:00 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: equaviator

Does anybody really care?


110 posted on 07/24/2013 6:15:04 PM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Unc1e_Ivan; GraceG
“Well the skunk works is usually 30-50 years ahead of what is publically released....”

A credible source once told me 100 years ahead...

Black triangles, anyone? I'm convinced that they're ours.

111 posted on 07/24/2013 6:15:19 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Send the Won on its first voyage, oh too bad the dilithium crystals cracked when he was in the vicinity of Vega....


112 posted on 07/24/2013 6:18:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: Windflier

If they can send even a drone on such a journey it will be a proof that it’s practical. I don’t know what the transition from subwarp to superwarp would be like. I’d think it would be impossible to keep the ship, such as it would be, intact.


113 posted on 07/24/2013 6:20:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: humblegunner

Only way it’ll work is if they can talk Zefram Cochrane into heading the team. ;-)


114 posted on 07/24/2013 6:20:20 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I don’t know what the transition from subwarp to superwarp would be like. I’d think it would be impossible to keep the ship, such as it would be, intact.

I'm far from an expert, but I've done a bit of curious reading about the theory behind faster than light travel via bending space over the years.

If what's being proposed by certain physicists can be accomplished, the ship and its occupants wouldn't feel a thing during such a trip. In fact, they wouldn't even have a sensation of movement.

115 posted on 07/24/2013 9:08:59 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: CodeToad
Well, smart guys said the speed of sound was a physical barrier, too.

Is that supposed to make some sort of point?

116 posted on 07/25/2013 4:00:50 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

I can’t believe you didn’t get the point.


117 posted on 07/25/2013 6:32:48 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad
I can’t believe you didn’t get the point.

Sorry I should have been more explicit. I realized what you were trying to say, but I didn't consider it to be valid.

Just because some people were proved wrong about something in the past in no way makes a valid analogy that einstein was wrong about the universal speed limit. I consider your analogy to be irrelevant.

118 posted on 07/25/2013 6:38:05 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

Really? This direct analogy escapes you?


119 posted on 07/25/2013 6:41:00 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad
Really? This direct analogy escapes you?

Your analogy doesn't escape me. I don't agree with it.

120 posted on 07/25/2013 6:43:50 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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