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Warp drive possible?

#45
hover said:
Oh, pesky temporal anomolies? Simple. Send message encoded subspace tachyon beams into the vortex ahead of you. And be sure to rotate the modulation of your shields.
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The key, and what a lot of people are missing is that you need to push a sinusoidal waveform through the flux capacitor or the Hawking's radiation will annihilate your subspace tachyon beams.
 
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#51
skychief said:
D'oh! of course!!

And we all know it requires little or no energy to warp space-time. Hell, Im doing it right now. And not even breaking a sweat. :p
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The initial solutions to GR that Alcubierre came up with required vast amounts of energy - if I remember the more than what's available in the observable mass of the universe - but refinements have gotten that number down first to a couple solar masses, then a Jupiter mass and now to a couple hundred Kg. But that only makes the drive a little less impossible to make since the solution requires exotic matter which so far exists only in theory
 
#52
stratovani said:
I didn't see anything about it being ready in ten years. All I read was about how they will be performing experiments in the next few years. They're still a long, long way from developing this, don't you agree?
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The interesting thing with this device is that the basic concept is understood quite well. But there's a missing piece, exotic matter, that may not exist. But if it does it's entirely reasonable to think that the finding of exotic matter could lead to a warp drive within a decade. The problem is (a) discovering it (b) if it exists.
 
#53
I'm gonna start working on this right away, but I'm a little short on cash. If you all could just send some cash to me, I'd have it done within a decade.

Just sent cash to:
Gill Ublle
The Enterprise
A Galaxy Far Far Away
Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Any leftover cash will be pledged to McGlyph's friend's kickstarter!

Hopefully everyone is INFORMED enough to know I'm super cereal.
 
#54
SnowCal said:
The interesting thing with this device is that the basic concept is understood quite well. But there's a missing piece, exotic matter, that may not exist. But if it does it's entirely reasonable to think that the finding of exotic matter could lead to a warp drive within a decade. The problem is (a) discovering it (b) if it exists.
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I would also think that learning to harness it might be a bit of a problem as well! ;)
 
#58
hover said:
Oh, pesky temporal anomolies? Simple. Send message encoded subspace tachyon beams into the vortex ahead of you. And be sure to rotate the modulation of your shields.
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Isn't that the technology monster instrument cables already uses?




bluesblaster said:
I think the exotic matter your looking for would be" Dylithium crystals " would it not?
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just buy 2 tubes.
 

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