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Quantum Setback For Warp Drives [back to the drawing board]
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Posted on 04/03/2009 8:50:10 AM PDT by Clint Williams
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To: Clint Williams
I think reality burst the bubble on this one.
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:52:34 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I shoot only after kindness fails.)
To: Clint Williams
Crap.
I have a trip to Mississippi next week.
Guess I’m driving.
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:53:07 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Clint Williams
Captain, the dilithium crystals can't take it anymore!...........
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:53:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If Keynesian economics worked, Zimbabwe would be a superpower.......................)
To: Clint Williams
To: Clint Williams
Rats. That was our technicality in FTL. Of course impossible in current technology, it still provided something to strive for.
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:54:44 AM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
To: Clint Williams
Wormhole theory, however, remains sound. I truly think someone will cook up a traversable wormhole before too long. I hope I live long enough to see it.
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posted on
04/03/2009 8:59:28 AM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Clint Williams
Well there goes my weekend.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:00:55 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: B-Chan; Clint Williams
Ummm..., yeah..., if one believes in science fiction physics... LOL...
To: B-Chan
I can think of a few personalities I hope would volunteer to be the first to travel into a black hole...
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:04:32 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
To: Red Badger
There is actually a speed EVEN FASTER than Warp Drive speed: Ludicrous speed.
And if you go that fast, don't even THINK of STOPPING. You have to SLOW DOWN first.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:06:04 AM PDT
by
C210N
(The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
To: C210N
The current admin reminds me of Spaceballs. With Barry as Pres. Skroob, Emanuel as Dark Helmet, and Hillie as Col. Sandurz. With the three of them surrounded by...well, you know :)
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:08:32 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: Crazieman
Of course impossible in current technology, it still provided something to strive for.
As long as we keep striving, we achieve. If we stop striving we stagnate.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:08:32 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: B-Chan
Isn’t the whole notion of a wormhole that the space within one event horizon of a black hole may transmit matter/energy to another black hole? If so, the speed of light is only one of many facets to your problems.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:09:02 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: Star Traveler
Wormhole physics are perfectly legitimate. None has been found, or probably will until we get out there using some other method of transport, but there are no reason they can’t exist when using general relativity physics.
If some of the string theories or multiple universe theories turn out to be accurate, there are a number of other possible options for getting from one place to another without crossing the intervening space. Possibly by taking a shortcut thru another universe.
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:09:04 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
To: Clint Williams
"But one unanswered question was what happens......"
when you turn on the headlights??
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:11:19 AM PDT
by
Pietro
To: Clint Williams
The elemental limpidity of it all...
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posted on
04/03/2009 9:11:22 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
To: Sherman Logan
Yeah, perfectly legitimate in the “minds” of some people... :-)
To: Sherman Logan
To: Clint Williams
Couldn’t they just “beam” us to wherever we’re going? You know, “beam me over, Scottie” rather than “beam me up, Scottie”?
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