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Warp Engines In Development?
Toloran writes "Although a staple of Sci-Fi space travel, it is often deemed to be just that: Fiction. However, it seems that one is currently in development. "The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft. Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.""
Geez doesn't anyone remeber the philidelpiha project?
the one where the Navy put a bunch of big tesla coils on a ship, turned them all on, and she ship dissappeared, only to (reportedly) show up in a different port, with the crew either insane, or dead.
"That theory, were it to exist, would be the TOE I was talking about. It is only at extremely high energies that the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces merge, at lower energies they are distinct."
Well wasn't that what the philadelphia experiment (with a battleship) was all about?
"When this was discovered, it was suspected/hoped that the other forces (strong nuclear, gravitational) could also be unified (thus "Grand Unified Theory" or "Theory of Everything"), but to my knowledge this has not happened. Please correct me if I am wrong and such a theory exists."
The Smoking Man will not allow me to show you.
Right this moment, I am having sex with the temporal lobe of your brain.
Mmmm, God that's nice and gooey. mmmmm.
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