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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Does anybody really know what time it is?...
Actually, I hear Steppenwolf in my mind’s ear right now for some reason.
Actually I was think more of DP’s ‘Space Truckin’”
Yeah...
The ships that the US Air Force built in the somewhat fictional show Stargate SG-1
Headline:
“NASA starts building ...”
Article:
“and hope to one day build an engine “
Typical headline hype. The article is nothing like that at all.
Space is not something that can be expanded. Space is not something. It is what remains when all objects are removed.
Maybe he means the distance between objects, but that’s not what he said.
Time is the measurement of the motion of objects. Time is not something that can be combined with space to produce the ludicrous concept “space-time.”
Einstein did not make ‘rules’ about the way things act. He observed. There are no ‘rules’, only observations. It’s not possible to ‘bend’ the ‘rules.’
Ye cannoh change the laws of PHYSICS, Cap’n.
I have little doubt that, if the Lord waits, we will exceed the speed of light and, considering we still don’t know how gravity works, the key may be in understanding just that.
Scotty must have forgotten that!
We will get all the answers eventually, and be amazed at how simple and elegant it all is!
Collossians 1:17
If you fold space, you don’t have to actually go that fast, but your point is well taken.
Along the way you’d want to invent the ‘deflector shield’ first.
“So, what happens when you run into a speck of cosmic dust at that speed? Hmmm.....” Don’t forget, they will also need to invent artificial gravity and inertial dampeners too. ;-)
No but the warp drive intermix chamber regulators were made by G.E.
BTW, if you could see the entire Universe from the outside, it would all be nothing more than a particle in a larger context. If a bubble can be established inside the Universe which isolates the inside of the bubble from the spacetime Universe of our experience, then all of the Universe is simultaneously accessible to the ones 'inside' the bubble.
Put another way, imagine the Universe as a bubble of spacetime. If you could fashion a bubble inside that larger bubble, the surface of the smaller bubble would be attached to the surface of the larger bubble.
This is a cover for the reverse engineering completed decades ago.
It's so fast that you can't see it.
So, as in other things we can't see or understand, we will have to take the experts word that it actually exists.
Sort of like Obama's economic recovery, shovel-ready jobs, The Emperor's New Clothes, Global Warming & Climate Change.
/s
“If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?” - Stephen Wright
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