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Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All?

Posted by Zonk on from the best-part-about-space-travel-is-you-can-leave dept.

DrStrabismus writes "PhysOrg has a story about research that may indicate that close to light speed travel is possible. From the article: 'New antigravity solution will enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century, he predicts. On Tuesday, Feb. 14, noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber will present his new exact solution of Einstein's 90-year-old gravitational field equation to the Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF) in Albuquerque. The solution is the first that accounts for masses moving near the speed of light.'"

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  1. Is there anything by sholden · · Score: 0, Troll

    not worthy of an article here?

  2. Re:Speed of what? by 4km · · Score: 1, Troll

    your a tool... SOS at STP is not 300m/s try 343m/s or 1127ft/s and totally depends on tempture and relative humidity. This is physics, they have laws not suggestions.

  3. Re:All right! Practical interstellar travel! by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    except I need a star going more than 0.6c

    Just smash 2 stars going 0.3c into each other. It is addative, dispite what your phyz book says. It is called Intelligently Designed Space Travel.

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  4. Bah. by miffo.swe · · Score: 0, Troll

    My fealing in the subject is that the speed of light is just a mental barrier. Just like the speed of sound. I have a really hard time accepting that the speed of light would impossible to exceed. I should really take some time off to put my reasoning behind this into calculations and theories. In my world the speed of light is the highest speed of light, not the highest speed of everything else.

    Before you jump all over me, dont forget that the world once was flat and the sun evolved around the earth. We still have a long way to go.

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