telegraph.co.uk — Two physicists have boldly gone where no reputable scientists should go and devised a new scheme to travel faster than the speed of light. The advance could mean that Star Trek fantasies of interstellar civilisations and voyages powered by warp drive are now no longer the exclusive domain of science fiction writers.
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ooddieyAug 15, 2008
Hmmmm I think we should have this technology around 2063 just my estimate.
camaromanAug 16, 2008
I'll be old as hell. f**k
crossmrAug 16, 2008
"This may come as a surprise since, according to relativity theory, matter cannot move through space faster than the speed of light," I'd say it is a surprise..I'm shocked that someone is giving a random hypothesis the time of day..let alone a f**king news story.
kinggorillaAug 16, 2008
what does that make you? Mister "I too have a digg account"
skeez86Aug 16, 2008
"No, actually there are only a relatively few people who actually work on such things. The rest simply accept what they are told because...they are being told by other scientists."Welcome to the definition of science.You accept what they say because they have sound scientific explanation. If you can't believe something you haven't worked on yourself, there would be absolutely no progress in any field. It's not like there's some master book telling everyone the way things are so they can blindly follow it. (ie. bible)It is very evident that you are amercian because you display an utter lack of scientific understanding. Go go invisible man in the sky.
hot4geeksAug 17, 2008
I'm trying to say all I've ever had the ill-opportunity to date is Englishmen and no logic comes out of their mouths.I have no quarrel with the Scots.
honeybrassAug 17, 2008
"The problem with this and previous schemes (including my own) is that part of the exotic matter would have to travel faster than the *local* speed of light (roughly speaking, it would need to go faster than the speed of light with respect to the portion of space it occupies), and that's not allowed by any established physical theory." Obviously I read the article more carefully than you!
halyconprimeMar 5, 2009
The ship would have to be armored and reinforced to withstand the stress of entering and leaving warp.However, in theory, debris would not be an issue because debris would be deflected by the bubble I am thinking. But then again, in Star Trek The Motion Picture, this did occur and they had to use a photon torpedo to get rid of the astroid before colliding with it in the wormhole that the unballanced warp drive created.
halyconprimeMar 5, 2009
Going faster than light, I do believe you would see objects looooong before they are actually where you think you saw it.
halyconprimeMar 5, 2009
Never if we cannot fix the economy. Nasa is too busy wasting money and building ships out of aluminum foil instead of creating a truly reusable spacecraft.