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Well if this becomes a reality then the Humans will be seen as Star Treks equivalent of the Borg and will want to assimilate everything. 
Warp Drive a step closer to reality?
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Good news guys, while these sort of advancements are beyond our lifespan, a crazy russian billionair has started funding an immortality project for 2045! BONUS! http://2045.com/about/
Its all coming together nicely
Downloadable conciousness into robotic body + FTL capable spacecraft (and lets be real, SPACE LASERS!) = EvE RealLife!
I know people will dismiss it as a crack-pot dream but things like this and Mars One are exactly what we need! I think the 2045 site sums it up very well:
Let's not forget, the military are probably already way ahead of the times with this kinda stuff!
Military?
Perhaps official research institutions but most of the work is done by Contractors.
same as earth then?
I meant the likes of DARPA.
Nothing like here on earth. On earth half the known world is run by a group of people purely to line the pockets of a few. Being a **** to everyone else is just a happy side-effect.
That's how I intend to still be around in 200 years time!True, half of the OcUK beers competitors are pickled already
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That's how I intend to still be around in 200 years time!
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By not being in this universe.
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By not having any mass (well from the universes perspective).
E=mc²
Photons, for example, are supposed to have no mass. By travelling faster than light you would, by that model, weigh less than nothing. If it still works at that point.
Of course, we aren't really sure how photons work.
This is a simplified way of putting what I said. You have no mass from the universes perspective. But to you you should still be perfectly normal. So, relative to the universe, you would not exist.
I'm not sure what would happen during acceleration and retardation, I need to look it up.
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If you travel faster than light, how do you slow down as any time spent pressing stop to turn off the drive or to begin to slow down would take an infinite amount of time in the outside perspective and thus cover an infinite distance?
As you approach the speed of light time travels much more slowly outside, at the point where you reach the speed of light you should arrive immediately at your destination, from your own perspective,right?
But realistically you would get ot 0.9999999 or whatever at which point seconds would equal years outside, add some more nines and seconds equal thousands of years etc.. So you would reach the destination way before you reach light speed.. unless the acceleration is instant and thus back to first problem.
Is that right or what?
As you approach the speed of light time travels much more slowly outside, at the point where you reach the speed of light you should arrive immediately at your destination, from your own perspective,right?
But realistically you would get ot 0.9999999 or whatever at which point seconds would equal years outside, add some more nines and seconds equal thousands of years etc.. So you would reach the destination way before you reach light speed.. unless the acceleration is instant and thus back to first problem.
Is that right or what?
no, the drive warps space around the ship the ship remains in a section of unwarped space and so never approaches the speed of light (the ship is traveling relatively slowly in it's unwarped space). This is why it can move faster than the speed of light, because it is not moving faster than the speed of light.
Well going by Alcubierre bubble, you basically create a mini (very lax term) universe within the framework of our own universe.
The C doesnt exist there, so it is of no problem to us.
The problem we have now, (if this new information can be proven) is finding "exotic" matter of some sort to be able to do a larger test.
Thank goodness for all those anti-protons we discovered in our atmosphere? i forget, it was a little while ago.
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Just goes to show that Gene Roddenberry will one day go down as the father of space travel for the ideas that his show generated.
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Have NASA not seen Event Horizon!? i dont fancy having a death blood orgy anytime soon!
Always amazes me the complexity of the warp effect in the movies just got more and more basic, no blurring lights or anything now just "boom" its gone.
Nemesis was the most disappointing warp effect for me.
If the article stated the nature of the exotic substance it would be easier to gauge the feasilit
