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Quantum Setback For Warp Drives
KentuckyFC writes "Warp drives were generally considered impossible by mainstream scientists until 1994 when the physicist Michael Alcubierre worked out how to build a faster-than-light drive using the principles of general relativity. His thinking was that while relativity prevents faster-than-light travel relative to the fabric of spacetime, it places no restriction on the speed at which regions of spacetime may move relative to each other. So a small bubble of spacetime containing a spacecraft could travel faster than the speed of light, at least in principle. But one unanswered question was what happens to the bubble when quantum mechanics is taken into account. Now, a team of physicists have worked it out, and it's bad news: the bubble becomes unstable at superluminal speeds, making warp drives impossible (probably)."
Or is it *both* Impossible and not Impossible?
is this where the improbability drive comes in?
yeah, someone had to say it.
Just do what the Planet Express Ship does and use a Dark Matter drive to move the Universe around us instead... :)
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So you mean to say my brand spanking new SSDs have become obsolete already???
That's it, cancel the Star Trek Movie. Now that I know it's all fake it just ruined it for me.
Play me online? Well you know that I'll beat you. If I ever meet you I'll "/sbin/shutdown -h now" you. -Weird Al, kinda.
Oh my.
This is why we need women in the army to stop that nonsense.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It always works.
With magic, you can ride a unicorn.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Perhaps this is why, despite our best efforts, no other civilization has contacted us. It's simply too hard to bridge the huuuuge gap between the stars.
More likely, they've just chosen not to. Like why we tend to not talk to people from Alabama.
The problem with traveling faster than light is that my wife would never go with me on a trip:
"Traveling that fast is going to make my ass look big."
(Hmm, leaving her behind might be a good thing... )
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
That's just silly...No one would mate with Kate Mullgrue...
Unless...
Go East
You have been molested by a Mullgrue
-=Bang Bang=-
it needs to be of a sufficient size that you don't go bugshit loco crazy
...
Inadvertently, a Slashdot poster stumbles upon the reason that aliens, intersteller travelers who travel in very small ships, abduct people on Earth and stick things up their butts.
And then
nah, 8 weeks of basic training doesn't generate THOSE kinds of issues....
the real problems, and a closer analogy, (pun? what pun?) would be the Navy....
500 men leave on the ship, 6 months later 250 couples return
"Traveling that fast is going to make my ass look big."
Just figured out my reply: "Dear - it's all relative... "
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.