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Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible
Trunks writes "No doubt trying to ride the hype train that's currently going for the new Star Trek film, Space.com has a new article detailing how warp drive may not be impossible to acheive. From the article: '"The idea is that you take a chunk of space-time and move it," said Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project. "The vehicle inside that bubble thinks that it's not moving at all. It's the space-time that's moving." One reason this idea seems credible is that scientists think it may already have happened. Some models suggest that space-time expanded at a rate faster than light speed during a period of rapid inflation shortly after the Big Bang. "If it could do it for the Big Bang, why not for our space drives?" Millis said.' Simple, right?"
For something like 700 years, the speed of light was like 34 miles an hour. That's the speed at which a junebug, tied to a string, started to blur.
Science goes both in and out of accuracy. People don't like to remember it, but it's true. In fact, it's been just as inaccurate as certain Popes I'll not name.
Both cases are true: mankind doesn't understand something at some point. It's natural.
What doesn't *seem* natural is a book, written 1000+ years ago describes "The Earth is suspended from nothing" and talks about the plate separation forever changing it from a single land mass. Yeah, the Bible.
There's a lot more that's in there. No other old book comes close. Isn't that enough reason to look? Why are you urged to look away?