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1 posted on 08/14/2008 5:51:07 AM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
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To: BloodOrFreedom
Welcome to Star Wars

More like Star Trek. This is pretty much exactly how the fictional warp-drive was written to work.
2 posted on 08/14/2008 5:53:09 AM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: BloodOrFreedom

Anybody who watched Star Trek TNG with any regularity already has a pretty firm grasp of the concept.


3 posted on 08/14/2008 5:54:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: BloodOrFreedom

Awesome! I just wish I could comprehend what they’re talking about.


4 posted on 08/14/2008 5:54:52 AM PDT by meandog (please pray for future President McCain, day minus 130 and counting)))
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To: BloodOrFreedom

Why can’t we run our cars on Dark Energy?.................damned enviros!..............


5 posted on 08/14/2008 5:55:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: BloodOrFreedom

It’s gonna take oodles and oodles of energy. By the time we get the capability to generate that much, the libs will have made sure that we each are allowed the use of one AAA battery per week. Can’t warp far on that. :)


6 posted on 08/14/2008 5:55:57 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: BloodOrFreedom

Speed doesn’t kill. Acceleration (and deceleration) does.


8 posted on 08/14/2008 5:56:24 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: BloodOrFreedom

There are ten dimensions? Holy cow. There is so much that we don’t know.

My questions is this: If the speed of light is what 187000 miles per second, what is the velocity of which these people speak?

This new spaceship, or whatever form it would take, sounds like a great vehicle to be late in!


11 posted on 08/14/2008 6:02:40 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit!" Douglas MacArthur)
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To: BloodOrFreedom
Heavy Sigh...

It is of course completely refuted by Einstein. The speed of light is the same regardless of the reference frame. These guys are just fantasizing about what could be if Special Relativity weren't true.

12 posted on 08/14/2008 6:02:51 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: BloodOrFreedom
In effect creating a gravitational peak behind the ship and a gravitational valley in front. (its a downhill ride)

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14 posted on 08/14/2008 6:05:27 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: BloodOrFreedom

So, if it travels faster than light, what happens if they flick the headlights on? ;)


15 posted on 08/14/2008 6:07:28 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: BloodOrFreedom

Pelosi says it will take at least 10 years before we can get even a drop of dark matter and we should buy stock in her wind company instead.


17 posted on 08/14/2008 6:08:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BloodOrFreedom
Dark energy/matter. The new Unobtanium for making our flux capacitors.

Maybe we'll have particle lasers fueled by red mercury.

Yes, I think FTL is possible using a field theory as they describe. It just makes my teeth ache every time they mention "dark" anything. The whole science of dark energy/matter is based off of sketchy suppositions and guesses IMO.

The numbers look pretty, but they are basing a lot of it off of some seriously flawed assumptions. Again, in my undereducated opinion only.

19 posted on 08/14/2008 6:12:46 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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You’ll have to ask the pilot to slow down so you can watch the in-flight movie.


27 posted on 08/14/2008 6:37:13 AM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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Travel by bubble might seem more appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light.

Well, except during rush hour of course.

33 posted on 08/14/2008 7:04:55 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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I've long believed that if we are to survive as a race, one of two things will have to be possible: FTL travel, or Zero Point energy.

The distances between the stars are just too vast for us to make it without one of these two things.

Being a religious person, I find it hard to believe that God would create us in a universe where our survival was not possible.

41 posted on 08/14/2008 8:51:30 AM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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String theorists had believed that a total of 10 dimensions exist, including height, width, length and time. The other six dimensions exist largely as unknowns, but everything is based on hypothetical one-dimensional strings. A newer theory, called M-theory, suggests that those strings all vibrate in yet another dimension. Manipulating that additional dimension would alter dark energy in terms of height, width, and length, Cleaver and Obousy theorize.
That 'other dimension' is the Eleventh and is based 'Super Gravity' which was pooh-poohed until theoretical physicists realized (finally) that without it their String Theory didn't 'work' because their was FIVE of them, and that ain't good in physics. Only by adding the Eleventh Dimension of Super Gravity did they see that all five string theories were basically the same thing being approached from different directions. And more importantly the M-Theory solved the leetle problem the String Theory couldn't -- The Big Bang and The Singularity (not to mention Alternate Universes, but that's another matter (pun intended).

As to Einstein; There's already a problem with E=mc2. Super Gamma Ray Bursts blow it to hell. The 'answer' arrived at to make it work is laughable (IMO). So if he's wrong there ...??? Oh and Leptons appear in two places at the same time. How do they do that, Alternate Universes or Time Travel?

I'm not a Theoretical Physicist, nor a Cosmologist, I just play one on FR.

43 posted on 08/14/2008 9:35:27 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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space-time bubble.. manipulate dark energy

can wormhole tollways be far behind?


46 posted on 08/14/2008 9:51:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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Been there.....Done that! {:-)


62 posted on 08/14/2008 12:04:55 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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Dark matter doesn’t actually exist. It’s just a tool for math.


75 posted on 08/15/2008 12:27:55 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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