UFO's and the sound barrier

I have a question regarding why there are no reports of sonic booms after these UFO's take off with such amazing speed. I have seen videos with audio that unqestionably show an object excellerating at an unbeliveable speed, yet no boom...What is the poosible science behind this?

Thank you.

Seems like every, and I mean Every day some new member creates an unserious thread, the next one stupider than the last. Can't we get someone on this? Even the guy with the 'hood speak' didn't get his thread deleted. =/

Oh, and for you, Mr. Unserious Thread Starter. How the heck are we supposed to know the answer to your question?

Oh, and for you, Mr. Unserious Thread Starter. How the heck are we supposed to know the answer to your question?

Im looking for some one brighter then you to answer what the possibilities for this could be. Thank you for your interest.

im not the bigest know all but ufo's use a different type of (i dont know what) to fly.
our planes use engines right?
so ufo's fly with i something like a gravitacion control device

Fine, I'll humor you.

It's possible that the UFO's create some kinda gravity 'bubble' around the craft itself. This means that the gravity inside that bubble will not be affected, meaning they can accelerate in tremendous speeds without suffering the consequences of inertia smashing potential craftees up, but also giving the craft the ability to hover and, assumingly making it 'immune' to sonic booms, as there's no actual matter colliding with the atmosphere.

Still it's all just speculation, and no one can really know. Sorry if I singled you out or anything, it's just that I felt something needed to be done.

drexon

Originally posted by Drexon
Fine, I'll humor you.

It's possible that the UFO's create some kinda gravity 'bubble' around the craft itself. This means that the gravity inside that bubble will not be affected, meaning they can accelerate in tremendous speeds without suffering the consequences of inertia smashing potential craftees up, but also giving the craft the ability to hover and, assumingly making it 'immune' to sonic booms, as there's no actual matter colliding with the atmosphere.

Still it's all just speculation, and no one can really know. Sorry if I singled you out or anything, it's just that I felt something needed to be done.

Its more fun to be nice isnt it? Drexon, my question is serious and I actually do appreciate your hypothesis, it is plausible.

Since at least no one in the general public is privy to the apparently exotic propulsion systems of the craft, the only thing we have to rely on, without any real science, is our imaginations.

Some say it perverses gravity waves.

Some say it is riding the "ether" at the quantum level, in between the molecules of air that would cause the booms borrowing the theorectically huge amounts of energy that binds all matter together.

Some say they may be interdimensional, not really fully existing well enough in our dimension to have an effect on or be affected by our physics.

Some say the craft allow the matter they reside in at any given moment to pass through them so not to disturb it.

Fill in your own blank and stand by what makes the most sense to you, because ATM the jury is still out....

Interesting question DeeMack. Putting aside the many theories on gravity manipulation, one theory often mentioned re linear propulsion has consistently been Air Ionization. Sort-of taking everything in front of the craft and putting it behind it. An ionization vacuum. I suggest this type of field rids high speed flight from creating sonic boom as there is no air resistance.

Sound Barrier: www.fluidmech.net...
UFO Ionization cause/effect: ufo.cjscreations.com...

Dallas

If you have a vague conception (and mine is vague, believe me) of afdvanced physics then gravity is supposed to be bent space????

And these UFO (if you follow UFO lore generally) are supposedly using gravity control as a form of propultion....
So they are not in pushing them selves through space and thus ploughing through everything it contains....

But rather warping and stretching space around the actual craft....
This is alice in wonderland Sh1t.... I dont exactly understand 100% either but
it makes intuitive sence since they are not actually traveling through space per-se......

I'm not much off a tech buff regarding this stuff

There's a way to create a bubble of vaccuum which is explainable with physics which would possibly negate friction as such that a boom won't happen.

A more exotic theory about ufo propulsion is they phase in and out of our dimension. being shifted out of this dimension they can't be bothered by the air here. shifting in once they reached destination point, and out again and in for every movement.

A less exotic but still exotic theory is based on 'real' scientific theories about warping space. As such you won't physically travel but sort of pop up instantly at your destination. actually you didn't move but space was folded in a way to put the departure point and destination point at roughly the same spot and then unfolding it. The physics behind this are far to extensive then im willing to go into atm here. you can google on this. it's not ufo related specifically and a real theory on possible future space travel.
While not being bothered by time dilation effects like travelling at lightspeed and lightspeed actually being pretty slow concidering the scale of the universe e.g. a trip at the speed of light to the closest star Proxima Centauri would take over 4 years for the crew. and a neat little trick called relativity, a lot longer for the people back home waiting for a message of arrival, + that message would take 4+ years to reach earth after they got there. This theory suffers the same near infinite energy requirement problem.

But you wouldn't get a sonic boom since you didn't move through any air. you sort of blinked to your destination seemingly instantly.

I suppose an advanced alien might have an energy source that can cope.. vacuum energy e.g. but although vaccum or zero point energy is based on real theories. they are as far as I know no where near reality yet.

[edit on 1-4-2007 by David2012]

Nice tries, but remember, assumption is the mother of all screw-ups....

As a spaceman myself, I cannot get into the technical detail of this issues as the human mind is not ready to deal with such matters, but I will drop a little something to chew on.
Earthly craft pushes air away as it accelerates away and eventually this will results in a sonic boom as it exceeds your "sound barrier" limit.
Our spacecraft do not pushes air away as we accelerate in the earth's atmosphere, but is sucked forward into a space vacuum generated by our propulsion unit.

OK Drexon, let me have your revenge and anger for being serious and informative

Originally posted by Spacetraveller
Nice tries, but remember, assumption is the mother of all screw-ups....

As a spaceman myself, ...

Assumption is the mom of all screw-ups yet you want me to asume you're a spaceman?