Have you guys seen this? It looks damn interesting.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/warp...ack-time-lunch
Have you guys seen this? It looks damn interesting.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/warp...ack-time-lunch
Broken link on the first one.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Damn, all broke. But holy hell the accidental implications. I wonder what's missing. If they're missing something. Or if there really is crazyness going on here. Because...EM...is...light...
<head asplode>
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/te...warp/warp.html
statement from March 10th with an update from April 27th
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This tells me nothing, and frankly what it could be is similar errors that led to measurements of neutrinos traveling faster than light in the CERN supercollider.
Does anyone have a link to an article that is more than just hype?
Well the link that is now not working had all of the information about how the technology works. Here is something from Wired, but it doesn't have the same technical info as that broken NASA link and it's old. Oddly enough the NASA link is still showing up at the top of google searches but brings up an error page.
Yes I know about Cannae/Emdrive. This isn't a warp drive, it works nothing like a warp drive, and it is a novel concept although I retain skepticism of it (I would like to see it succeed however).
I'm interested in the lasers that allegedly moved faster than light.
EDIT:
This is somewhat more enlightening:
https://marcofrasca.wordpress.com/20...ive-an-update/
Last edited by Magister Militum Flavius Aetius; April 27, 2015 at 06:55 PM.
Getting anything faster than the speed of light is the beginnings of it which is what the article implies. Specifically it would have created a warp field or bubble within the drive.
Not really. It *might* have created tiny points of spacetime slightly compressed but that's only half of making a warp drive and even then, you can't extend the warp field outside the "emdrive." And that is if they rule out instrumentation error which is the usual culprit.
While I'm no expert in Physics, specifically, what I do know would appear to imply that this should be impossible, I guess we'll see though.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
It technically is and isn't, that is, warp drive.
Basically, it is mathematically sound, but there is no evidence in most of the accepted models of physics for exotic matter, which would be needed to help generate the warp field. And then that exotic matter would have to be propelled in front of the ship faster than the ship is moving (so faster than light) in order for it to form the warp field around the ship, and then there's the question of heat buildup inside the warp bubble which could result in conditions hotter than the core of the sun, and then we don't know how to stop a warp ship once it goes "into warp".
And this is barring the fact that the current model of warp drive is completely infeasible as to generate a 10m warp bubble travelling 10 times the speed of light requires 700kg of matter and antimatter and you can't fit the equipment to store 350kg of antimatter inside of a 10m warp bubble. And the bigger the bubble is, the more or less exponentially higher amount of energy is needed (it might be a logarithmic scale, I don't know that much of the math I only read Dr. White's paper on it), so in reality it is still technically impossible to build a warp "ship."
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Oh, I thought you were talking about Warp Drive.
EM/Cannae drive might work, it might not. The theory is that it pushes on quantum plasma to generate thrust but nobody I think has actually tested that (it might not be testable).
Nah. Complete bunk. Just click bait for the $$$'s. This is the original NASA article, whichsays warp drive is still just sci-fi, but is interesting to think about.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/te...warp/warp.html
The only thing mention is the work on ion propulsion which is real, but has nothing to do with the warping of space. And is only interesting because it uses a tiny amount of fuel.
VASMIR is also complete , it's been completely debunked.
So ... there will be no tests on the ISS for the time being.
But wait
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march...e-capabilitiesThe three NextSTEP advanced propulsion projects, $400,000 to $3.5 million per year per award, will have no more than a three-year performance period focused on ground testing efforts. The selected companies are:
- Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas
- Aeroject Rocketdyne Inc. of Redmond, Washington
- MSNW LLC of Redmond, Washington
Last edited by DaniCatBurger; April 29, 2015 at 12:03 PM.
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Watch this, it's an hour long but it effectively shows that all the things VASIMR has claimed aren't true, and the VASIMR people declined completely to show up to defend themselves.
I see. Thanks for the link.
Last edited by DaniCatBurger; April 30, 2015 at 01:40 PM.
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