Warp Drives Feasible in our life-time
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Interesting, but I still see a couple of problems, even if it works as intended. Sending a signal back (and without doing that, what's the point?) will still either take 20 or 2 years, but in the 2 year case you'd need to send a warp ship back just to transmit the data. That's going to suck no matter what you do, unless subspace communication turns out to be a real thing. Also, from the moment we successfully test that warp drive, we'll have Vulcans looking over our shoulders while we get into all sorts of unlikely trouble.
For signals... How about a "warp" drone? If you can make a big 'ol spaceship for people w/life support, etc... making a tiny one to transport messages should be possible too. As for Vulcans, I'll welcome 'em if they can help stamp-out hunger & disease. The real problem is idiots declaring them evil incarnate (because, well... 'cause they say so) & and another tiresome excuse for violence... -- Ian
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Somehow, I don't think it will be in my lifetime or my children's lifetime. Actually, if they run this like they did the space program, then it will never happen at all.
That deserves a down vote for being a depressing shit, accurate but depressing. I think my greatest disappointment in the last 40 years has been the US space program. I hope the Chinese get their finger out and start pushing forward with humans in space. They have a lower value on human life so they may get past some of the H&S limitations NASA has to work with!
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"...you will only need 500 [exotic matter] kilograms to "send a 10-meter bubble (32.8 feet) at an effective velocity of 10c."
Pretty sure that no one is going to run down to Home Depot to pick that up.
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That means that we would be able to visit Gliese 581g—a planet similar to Earth 20 light years away from our planet—in two years. Two years is nothing. It took Magellan three years to circumnavigate around our home planet
Realistically though that has about as much chance as us just waiting for some helpful aliens to show up with a ready made space craft. Not to mention that the analogy to Magellan demonstrates a complete lack of information in the comparison. For example it ignores that Magellan wasn't hauling his own atmosphere along and he made quite a few stops along the way.
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Realistically though that has about as much chance as us just waiting for some helpful aliens to show up with a ready made space craft.
And then they'll try to steal all our maple syrup.
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Here's one.[^] It hasn't been completely overcome, but we're able to get better resolution on things than we should be able (and if I remember correctly the transporters in Star Trek had a "Heisenberg Compensater", it might turn out such a device is possible or even unnecessary.)
The uncertainty principle gets a bigger part of the popular press than it really deserves. It's a consequence of the measurement process, which is bolted on top of quantum mechanics with a big caveat which states: Nobody has a clue why this happens and nobody understands exactly when the measurement rules kick in, but they do sometimes. What they are exploring is the boundary between measurement or decoherence[^] and standard quantum time evolution.
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While you have valid points it seems you missed the point of the "article". First off generating 500Kg is actually realistic... Generating the amount of the size of Jupiter not so much. While my neighbor Bob will not be able to fly to Alpha Centari in the near future I think Bob is OK with that. I think Bob would rather NASA go there first. Second, the analogy does fail to mention those details but it is an analogy in an "article". Why do I keep quoting "article". Cause it is not intended to talk about the details. Its not a white paper or journal entry. If something like this you do not find exciting as you need solid experiment descriptions etc. I get that. But I think more a long the lines of what was said here:
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It may sound like a small thing now, but the implications of the research huge. In his own words: Although this is just a tiny instance of the phenomena, it will be existence proof for the idea of perturbing space time-a "Chicago pile" moment, as it were. Recall that December of 1942 saw the first demonstration of a controlled nuclear reaction that generated a whopping half watt. This existence proof was followed by the activation of a ~ four megawatt reactor in November of 1943. Existence proof for the practical application of a scientific idea can be a tipping point for technology development.
While we are not leaving for the stars tomorrow such research opens the door for the possibility. I personally find that quite intriguing enough to look more into it.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote:
First off generating 500Kg is actually realistic...
I think what the article says is that carrying 500kg is realistic. We don't even know if the stuff exists so creating 500kg is just as hard as creating a planet of it is just as hard at this point. :laugh:
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Err...
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"...you will only need 500 [exotic matter] kilograms to "send a 10-meter bubble (32.8 feet) at an effective velocity of 10c."
Pretty sure that no one is going to run down to Home Depot to pick that up.
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That means that we would be able to visit Gliese 581g—a planet similar to Earth 20 light years away from our planet—in two years. Two years is nothing. It took Magellan three years to circumnavigate around our home planet
Realistically though that has about as much chance as us just waiting for some helpful aliens to show up with a ready made space craft. Not to mention that the analogy to Magellan demonstrates a complete lack of information in the comparison. For example it ignores that Magellan wasn't hauling his own atmosphere along and he made quite a few stops along the way.
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NASA starts development of real life star trek warp drive[^] Actually I Do have the power captain </ScottishAccent>
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The Eagleworks team has discovered that the energy requirements are much lower than previously thought. If they optimize the warp bubble thickness and "oscillate its intensity to reduce the stiffness of space time," they would be able to reduce the amount of fuel to manageable amount: instead of a Jupiter-sized ball of exotic matter, you will only need 500 kilograms to "send a 10-meter bubble (32.8 feet) at an effective velocity of 10c."
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
So they haven't actually made a "warp bubble", they don't know how to make a warp bubble, and they're not sure what the "exotic matter" is or how to find or fabricate it... but they can talk about Star Trek? Sounds like someone is looking for funding, so that they don't have to go out into the real world and do real jobs.
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NASA starts development of real life star trek warp drive[^] Actually I Do have the power captain </ScottishAccent>
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The Eagleworks team has discovered that the energy requirements are much lower than previously thought. If they optimize the warp bubble thickness and "oscillate its intensity to reduce the stiffness of space time," they would be able to reduce the amount of fuel to manageable amount: instead of a Jupiter-sized ball of exotic matter, you will only need 500 kilograms to "send a 10-meter bubble (32.8 feet) at an effective velocity of 10c."
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
Bullshit - Zephram Cochran will invent the first warp drive, and it will launch from a missile complex in Montana.
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NASA starts development of real life star trek warp drive[^] Actually I Do have the power captain </ScottishAccent>
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The Eagleworks team has discovered that the energy requirements are much lower than previously thought. If they optimize the warp bubble thickness and "oscillate its intensity to reduce the stiffness of space time," they would be able to reduce the amount of fuel to manageable amount: instead of a Jupiter-sized ball of exotic matter, you will only need 500 kilograms to "send a 10-meter bubble (32.8 feet) at an effective velocity of 10c."
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
That' just conjecture so far..\ But even if it's only mathematical conjecture for a while, that's likely to be the most amazing mind warping exhilarating fucking unbelievable (not too mention blue sky thinking) science speculation of the last 100 years!!!
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Funny, I searched but could not find any mention of di-lithium crystals. Thought they were a critical component. :)
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Here is a bit more on this from Eagleworks Laboratories: Advanced Propulsion Physics Research[^] by Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, Paul March, Nehemiah Williams, William O’Neill NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX For those of us that enjoy this kind of stuff: Space Times[^] from American Astronautical Society
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Interesting, but I still see a couple of problems, even if it works as intended. Sending a signal back (and without doing that, what's the point?) will still either take 20 or 2 years, but in the 2 year case you'd need to send a warp ship back just to transmit the data. That's going to suck no matter what you do, unless subspace communication turns out to be a real thing. Also, from the moment we successfully test that warp drive, we'll have Vulcans looking over our shoulders while we get into all sorts of unlikely trouble.
harold aptroot wrote:
Also, from the moment we successfully test that warp drive, we'll have Vulcans looking over our shoulders while we get into all sorts of unlikely trouble.
Isn't that what ended all of the wars on Earth?
harold aptroot wrote:
Sending a signal back (and without doing that, what's the point?) will still either take 20 or 2 years, but in the 2 year case you'd need to send a warp ship back just to transmit the data.
Agree with the other post. Seems like at first you would just make warp drones.. Message in a bottle type thing that would go back and forth just for comm links.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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they've been replaced by Flux Capacitors :-D
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Not tea-bags? :java:
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So they haven't actually made a "warp bubble", they don't know how to make a warp bubble, and they're not sure what the "exotic matter" is or how to find or fabricate it... but they can talk about Star Trek? Sounds like someone is looking for funding, so that they don't have to go out into the real world and do real jobs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
they're not sure what the "exotic matter" is or how to find or fabricate it
Haven't looked into the white papers yet but I would assume the exotic material is the "Dark Matter" that is also being researched. http://news.discovery.com/space/new-study-re-confirms-evidence-for-dark-energy-120912.html[^] As for the warp bubbles... http://dvice.com/archives/2012/09/nasa-warp-drive.php[^] It's not like they are just assuming they exist and will show up. It is also an active area. While I don't know the details nor pretend to think I can even understand most of it, I for one am glad there are such great scientists out there that can take theoretical science and turn it into solid fields of study. While your point is valid, if we all just went through the motions to cash a pay check we would not progress very fast.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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harold aptroot wrote:
Also, from the moment we successfully test that warp drive, we'll have Vulcans looking over our shoulders while we get into all sorts of unlikely trouble.
Isn't that what ended all of the wars on Earth?
harold aptroot wrote:
Sending a signal back (and without doing that, what's the point?) will still either take 20 or 2 years, but in the 2 year case you'd need to send a warp ship back just to transmit the data.
Agree with the other post. Seems like at first you would just make warp drones.. Message in a bottle type thing that would go back and forth just for comm links.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
Warp drones still suck IMO. While cheaper than a full ship with live support and such, they can't be cheap. And you'd have a limited number of them - producing more of them (forcing you to take a whole warp drive factory with you) does not seem realistic (yes I really just used that word) to me.
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I've always been interested in the idea of real warp drives (for example this one[^]). One thing I've always liked about Star Trek is that the science is mostly plausible (the details aren't always right, but the main ideas are usually close). I've also seen a few articles recently about how Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle isn't holding any more, one of the key scientific ideas making transporters impossible. I think this comic[^] sums up my feelings pretty well.
> how Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle isn't holding any more Ah, sorry, no :) . http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle-is-not-dead&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_physics_20120309[^] "Heisenberg would be pleased that the limitation we can know about the world, which he aimed to expressed, was this time clearly revealed with the new rigorous, experimentally verified formulation. The new uncertainty relation between measurement error and disturbance is no more just conjecture, but physical law." What the experiments have shown is that Heisenbergs formula still holds, but you can perform measurements on a system without introducing (much) extra uncertainty. Previously it was believed that most, if not all, of the uncertainty was introduced by the act of measurement. What the new experiments show is that the Heisenberg uncertainty is a fundamental fact of the laws of physics. At least that is as far as I have understood it.
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Warp drones still suck IMO. While cheaper than a full ship with live support and such, they can't be cheap. And you'd have a limited number of them - producing more of them (forcing you to take a whole warp drive factory with you) does not seem realistic (yes I really just used that word) to me.
harold aptroot wrote:
While cheaper than a full ship with live support and such, they can't be cheap. And you'd have a limited number of them - producing more of them (forcing you to take a whole warp drive factory with you) does not seem realistic (yes I really just used that word) to me.
Not sure about that. Its not like the "drone" needs warp capability actually. Just the launcher does. The only thing that need be launched is the message itself. We tend to think "message in a bottle" and in this case it seems the bottle is the warp bubble. The message is the pure data or communication. For example a RF transmission. Once the warp bubble reaches its destination the RF signal propagates as it would have if there was no warp bubble, but it is then at its destination so only interpretation is left.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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harold aptroot wrote:
While cheaper than a full ship with live support and such, they can't be cheap. And you'd have a limited number of them - producing more of them (forcing you to take a whole warp drive factory with you) does not seem realistic (yes I really just used that word) to me.
Not sure about that. Its not like the "drone" needs warp capability actually. Just the launcher does. The only thing that need be launched is the message itself. We tend to think "message in a bottle" and in this case it seems the bottle is the warp bubble. The message is the pure data or communication. For example a RF transmission. Once the warp bubble reaches its destination the RF signal propagates as it would have if there was no warp bubble, but it is then at its destination so only interpretation is left.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Maybe someone is really against warp travel and holds dearly that anyone that speaks about it is a demon that shall be burned at the stake via 1 votes.... Or I just ticked off the usual crowd again (hmm guess they would be the same though ;P )
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Well sense it does not yet exist you are not alone :laugh: Using an actually "Messaging Ship" ( like a postal service ), maybe would be the first crack at it. Who knows right? But I would think the same tech that launches the probes and then people to other solar systems would be the same tech used to communicate with the launches systems... On a smaller scale (drones or just messages in a bubble).
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.