Posted on 12/29/2014 8:29:32 PM PST by Deathtomarxists
Some guys spend their spare time restoring automobiles, devoting garage space to motionless Corvettes and Camaros.
Pares is making his own warp drive.
To hear him and his small team of supporters tell it, something weird is happening out here in the garage.
“The compression of the fabric of space,” Pares says matter-of-factly.
Pares’ garage is exactly as it sounds. This is not some converted hangar or temperature-controlled shed. Pares’ laboratory, the headquarters for his Space Warp Dynamics endeavor, is attached to the mid-size Aksarben-area home where he lives with his wife and their cat. It is split in halves, each side large enough to accommodate a not-very-large car. It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It is a garage.
On average, Pares spends a couple of hours a day here almost every day of the week. To bend the fabric of space, he sits in front of a tray of instruments, twisting knobs and glancing every now and then into a Faraday cage, where a 3.5-pound weight hangs inside an electrically isolated case. Outside the case hangs a strange instrument made up of V-shape panels with fractal arrays on the surfaces. The instrument is the latest version of what Pares believes is the world’s first low-power warp drive motor.
He turns around and points to the back of his garage door, where a red laser — beamed at the weight and reflected back against the door to demonstrate the movement happening in the case — drifts from its original spot. Slowly, in incremental amounts, the weight is drawn toward the V-shape motor.
“You’re not supposed to be able to do this,” Pares says.
At just 100 watts of power, he claims an electrical field created by his arrays is ever so slightly condensing space...
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Like I said, a lot of this stuff is conjecture. It’s way over my head, and I’m just kicking around ideas because I think 99 percent of the people are like me on this topic - clueless! Anyway, the motion of spiral galaxies doesn’t concern me, because I feel the experts are just guessing. They only recently discovered that black holes lie in the center of galaxies and account for much of the weird stuff going on. We probably know as much about the universe as people knew about the Earth six hundred years ago, wondering what kept the ocean water in place on a flat Earth. Anyway, hoping someone makes a warp drive a reality so we can get off this crazy planet and figure out what the truth is out there. Cheers!
Anybody remember the Night Gallery (I think) Episode with William Windom playing a Government Scientist who came up with the Theory of Non-Radioactive Fission (or something like that)?
He lost his young Daughter and the Government was concerned with his Mental State, until...
wee jumpers i liked that movie
One thing that was mentioned in Star Trek only once or twice was that the main computer was encased in a warp bubble for FTL computing.
Among other things, it’s what allowed the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to be compensated for to allow transporters to rematerialize matter on a quantum level.
“Anyway, the motion of spiral galaxies doesn’t concern me, because I feel the experts are just guessing. They only recently discovered that black holes lie in the center of galaxies and account for much of the weird stuff going on.”
Yeah, but it’s not just that they are “guessing”. They have these theories that are quite nice for many things, but just run into a brick wall in certain situations. They don’t want to have to toss out a theory that works perfectly well most of the time, so they are just “patching it up” instead of trying to figure out exactly why it isn’t working.
The scientists doing that, the ones who talk about “dark matter” as if it is a real thing, are not going to be the ones who make the next big breakthrough. It will come from those who start asking “why isn’t the theory working right?” and figuring out where that question leads them.
Interesting, I hadn’t even considered FTL computing. I don’t think their explanation really makes much sense, but imagine a warp “fiber optic” type of cable, with a very low energy field speeding packets of data along for nearly instantaneous communication. That would be pretty crazy!
And a hook-up to the clock tower?
I searched YouTube, and Pares is in a few videos.
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