Originally by: Jennifer Meek

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ANYTHING is possible.

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Originally by: Jennifer Meek

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ANYTHING is possible.

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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scientific mumbo jumbo

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Originally by: Captin ShadowHawk

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Or is it just Sci-Fi fantasy?

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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It is possible to travel faster than light globally, but not locally.

That is, for example, if you create a wave of spacetime moving moving extremely fast, you can "ride" it at far faster than the speed of light. However, locally, you might only be moving at 1/10th the speed of light. This works by drastically shrinking the space in front of you and expanding it behind you, so that every meter you move is actually a thousand meters (or whatever) outside of your "bubble."

This is called a "warp bubble", or an Alcubierre drive. It is proven to work within the framework of General Relatively, and should thus also work fine in real life. There are only a few issues:

1) It requires either a graviton emitter or exotic matter. We have neither.

2) It requires a vast amount of energy. Think Death Star vast.

But technically its possible.

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Originally by: Hypatia Iola

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does playing this friggin game jump everyone's IQ by 70 or 80 points or something? I'm by no means a stupid person, but sometimes you get out of my intellectual depth and more importantly WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR FACTS!!!!!

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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It is possible to travel faster than light globally, but not locally.

That is, for example, if you create a wave of spacetime moving moving extremely fast, you can "ride" it at far faster than the speed of light. However, locally, you might only be moving at 1/10th the speed of light. This works by drastically shrinking the space in front of you and expanding it behind you, so that every meter you move is actually a thousand meters (or whatever) outside of your "bubble."

This is called a "warp bubble", or an Alcubierre drive. It is proven to work within the framework of General Relatively, and should thus also work fine in real life. There are only a few issues:

1) It requires either a graviton emitter or exotic matter. We have neither.

2) It requires a vast amount of energy. Think Death Star vast.

But technically its possible.

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Originally by: Derovius Vaden

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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It is possible to travel faster than light globally, but not locally.

That is, for example, if you create a wave of spacetime moving moving extremely fast, you can "ride" it at far faster than the speed of light. However, locally, you might only be moving at 1/10th the speed of light. This works by drastically shrinking the space in front of you and expanding it behind you, so that every meter you move is actually a thousand meters (or whatever) outside of your "bubble."

This is called a "warp bubble", or an Alcubierre drive. It is proven to work within the framework of General Relatively, and should thus also work fine in real life. There are only a few issues:

1) It requires either a graviton emitter or exotic matter. We have neither.

2) It requires a vast amount of energy. Think Death Star vast.

But technically its possible.

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Goddamn it, what pulp fiction science book do you read Shikari. You cannot have any particle move faster than the speed of light. As your velocity increases, you begin to perform more and more like a wave, and waves have no mass. What you are suggesting is some how combining waves and particles into the same matter/energy. That is outright impossible.

As you apply more and more force on your little ship, you hit constant acceleration, and your mass spikes very rapidly to balance the force.

I'd sooner believe that you could somehow shrink the expanded vacuum between two points, thusly negating distance. The only object in the universe capable of taming light is a black hole, and they defy time itself, so good luck putting them to good use.

Like Fry said in Futurama, "I thought you couldn't go faster than light", "Thats true, which is why they increased the speed of light in 2267".

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Originally by: Arkanor

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0.0 is the Final Frontier. Bring money and friends.

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Originally by: Derovius Vaden

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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It is possible to travel faster than light globally, but not locally.

That is, for example, if you create a wave of spacetime moving moving extremely fast, you can "ride" it at far faster than the speed of light. However, locally, you might only be moving at 1/10th the speed of light. This works by drastically shrinking the space in front of you and expanding it behind you, so that every meter you move is actually a thousand meters (or whatever) outside of your "bubble."

This is called a "warp bubble", or an Alcubierre drive. It is proven to work within the framework of General Relatively, and should thus also work fine in real life. There are only a few issues:

1) It requires either a graviton emitter or exotic matter. We have neither.

2) It requires a vast amount of energy. Think Death Star vast.

But technically its possible.

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Goddamn it, what pulp fiction science book do you read Shikari. You cannot have any particle move faster than the speed of light. As your velocity increases, you begin to perform more and more like a wave, and waves have no mass. What you are suggesting is some how combining waves and particles into the same matter/energy. That is outright impossible.

As you apply more and more force on your little ship, you hit constant acceleration, and your mass spikes very rapidly to balance the force.

I'd sooner believe that you could somehow shrink the expanded vacuum between two points, thusly negating distance. The only object in the universe capable of taming light is a black hole, and they defy time itself, so good luck putting them to good use.

Like Fry said in Futurama, "I thought you couldn't go faster than light", "Thats true, which is why they increased the speed of light in 2267".

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Originally by: Wikipedia

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For those familiar with the effects of special relativity, such as Lorentz contraction and time dilation, the Alcubierre metric has some apparently peculiar aspects. Since a ship at the center of the moving volume of the metric is at rest with respect to locally flat space, there are no relativistic mass increase or time dilation effects. The on-board spaceship clock runs at the same speed as the clock of an external observer, and that observer will detect no increase in the mass of the moving ship, even when it travels at FTL speeds. Moreover, Alcubierre has shown that even when the ship is accelerating, it travels on a free-fall geodesic. In other words, a ship using the warp to accelerate and decelerate is always in free fall, and the crew would experience no accelerational g-forces. Enormous tidal forces would be present near the edges of the flat-space volume because of the large space curvature there, but by suitable specification of the metric, these would be made very small within the volume occupied by the ship.

The original warp drive metric, and simple variants of it, happen to have the ADM form which is often used in discussing the initial value formulation of general relativity. This may explain the widespread misconception that this spacetime is a solution of the field equation of general relativity. Metrics in ADM form are adapted to a certain family of inertial observers, but these observers are not really physically distinguished from other such families. Alcubierre interpreted his "warp bubble" in terms of a contraction of "space" ahead of the bubble and an expansion behind. But this interpretation might be misleading, since the contraction and expansion actually refers to the relative motion of nearby members of the family of ADM observers. Natario has suggested a significantly different kind of warp bubble metric which does not feature expansion.

Whether the Alcubierre metric can be considered physically realistic is questionable. Normally in general relativity, one first specifies a plausible distribution of matter and energy, and then finds the geometry of the spacetime associated with it; but it is also possible to run the Einstein field equations in the other direction, first specifying a metric and then finding the energy-momentum tensor associated with it, and this is what Alcubierre did in building his metric. This practice means that the solution can violate various energy conditions and require exotic matter, and even if exotic matter is possible it also leads to questions about whether it is actually possible to find a way to distribute the matter in an initial spacetime which lacks a "warp bubble" in such a way that the bubble will be created at a later time. Some analyses suggest that it would be impossible to generate the bubble without being able to force the exotic matter to move at locally FTL speeds, which would require the existence of tachyons. Other methods have been suggested which would avoid the problem of tachyonic motion, but would probably generate a naked singularity at the front of the bubble.

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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It is possible to travel faster than light globally, but not locally.

That is, for example, if you create a wave of spacetime moving moving extremely fast, you can "ride" it at far faster than the speed of light. However, locally, you might only be moving at 1/10th the speed of light. This works by drastically shrinking the space in front of you and expanding it behind you, so that every meter you move is actually a thousand meters (or whatever) outside of your "bubble."

This is called a "warp bubble", or an Alcubierre drive. It is proven to work within the framework of General Relatively, and should thus also work fine in real life. There are only a few issues:

1) It requires either a graviton emitter or exotic matter. We have neither.

2) It requires a vast amount of energy. Think Death Star vast.

But technically its possible.

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Originally by: Constantine Arcanum

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most problems can be solved with chloroform.

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Originally by: Patch86

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The one nugget of a fact I can add is that in order to create a "warp bubble" of a sufficient magnitude to move, say, a 200 meter space ship, you would require about one quadrillion times all the energy existing in the visible universe. So we'll need bigger batteries

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Originally by: Benglada

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If light has no mass how is it that black holes can pull them in? Something needs to have mass to be affected by gravity. therefore, light has mass.

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Originally by: KingsGambit

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I remember reading somewhere that some scientists have managed to propel matter faster than light. Using an electron gun of some sort they were able to fire electrons (the smallest piece of matter) that travelled at speeds faster than light...underwater. Under water light travels slower than in air or a vacuum. Though the test doesn't work in a "Warp 9, Engage" sorta way, it does prove that matter *can* travel faster than light.

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