Faster than light travel may not be possible in actual fact (maybe...)

sidthesexist · 3 Apr 2009 at 15:57

No point in going FTL anyway, the government would just find a way to give you a speeding ticket for it

EvilOne · 3 Apr 2009 at 15:59

With that guys attidude we wont make FTL traval lol. He needs to stop moaning about problems and start solving them.

Interstellartravial is like the matrix, some rules can be broken others can be bent. We just need to find out which.

Dutch Guy · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:02

You only need to go 88mph

A while ago people thought the earth was flat, maybe in a few years we get more evidence it is possible to travel faster.

Sin_Chase · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:03

After you solve the FTL puzzle you just need a crew suicidal enough to take a craft into the completely unknown.

I'm in

Cosimo · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:04

mrk said:
Yes it is news, science news, don't you see it? or was it too fast...

It went past so slowly that you couldn't help but notice it.

Le_Petit_Lapin · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:05

FosterK said:
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Lol

Nymins · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:08

Evangelion said:
I was pretty sure the scientific community had established years ago that it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light.

Anything with mass cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Something that is pure energy however...

Inquisitor · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:09

FosterK said:
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We'd need more of them than we have low slots though.

CaptainComedy · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:22

Im quite happy to be the first lab rat to try any sort of ftl/interstellar travel. I have no experience scientific or otherwise, dont care for my surroundings, very friendly and open minded, single, can work full time and have a vivid imagination for those times of procrastination

Cosimo · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:35

Capn' $qu!ff said:
Dude any car Journey in Italy borders on fatal

After driving around there for years I would just call it a joy ride.

Jono8 · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:40

Yeh, and scientist thought the world was flat at one point...

Nothing is impossible. Watch this space!

Clowny666 · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:42

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I couldn't care, as long as wormholes are possible, its all good.

In my haste I read that as "as long as wombles are possible", and I thought "There's a man whose thinking I admire".

It's been an odd day

CaptainComedy · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:45

Jono8 said:
Yeh, and scientist thought the world was flat at one point...

Nothing is impossible. Watch this space!

agreed, just because they dont understand, doesnt mean its not possible.

Le_Petit_Lapin · 3 Apr 2009 at 16:59

Clowny666 said:
In my haste I read that as "as long as wombles are possible", and I thought "There's a man whose thinking I admire".

It's been an odd day

Wormholes or Wombles, I'll be happy with either tbh.

Are they any good at making a fried breakfast?

|Thomas| · 3 Apr 2009 at 17:19

Ben M said:
I thought that special relativity (time dilation, and mass gain etc.) threw any idea of warp drives out of the window years ago?

Special relativity doesn't apply between regions of space, hence if you're travelling inside a region of space that is in itself travelling faster than the speed of light relative to the rest of space then the postulates of special relativity are not violated. This is why there is an observable limit to our universe, the space between our galaxy and distant galaxies is expanding faster than the speed of light.

None of this takes into account the QM effects though, which according to this article screws the whole theory over. So yeah it is news

Spektor · 3 Apr 2009 at 18:05

Jono8 said:
Yeh, and scientist thought the world was flat at one point...

Nothing is impossible. Watch this space!

I'm pretty sure the first human societies to understand the concept of a horizon new from then on the world wasn't flat even if they didn't have the bigger picture.

Where exactly are we going to go anyway? all the best porn is right here on Earth.

Muffin` · 3 Apr 2009 at 18:06

FosterK said:
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haha

EvilOne · 3 Apr 2009 at 18:12

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Wormholes or Wombles, I'll be happy with either tbh.

With there home made rocket !

Watch out alien litter bugs! They are coming..

CaptainComedy · 3 Apr 2009 at 18:22

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Smitho3 · 3 Apr 2009 at 18:31

They got his name wrong, its Miguel! Must be tripe, I believe that FTL is a very real possibility, and although MA's theory was mathematically sound it was flawed in other ways. It would require all of the energy of all the matter in the universe being destroyed at once to create a big enough bubble to encompass a ship for starters! Also it would require an "exotic particle" (anti-matter) which we are currently unable to store due to its self destructive nature.