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Two Baylor University scientists in the U.S. have come up with a new method to cause a spaceship to effectively travel faster than the speed of light, without breaking the laws of physics. Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Richard Obousy, a Baylor graduate student, theorize that by manipulating the extra spatial dimensions of string theory around a spaceship with an extremely large amount of energy, it would create a "bubble" that could cause the ship to travel faster than the speed of light.
- Toronto Sun NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2008 (Page 40.)
Originally posted by thefreepatriot
remember the craft would not be going faster then light... Einsteins law will still remain intact... you will be merely compressing\bending spacetime... One way you can see this in action is.. take a piece of paper which represents ource space time plane... then put an A for departure point in one end and B for destination... Whats the fastest way to get there? most people would say a straight line... wrong bend the paper anyway you wish so that the the departure point meets the destination... Gravity can bend space\time as evidenced by measuring the space shuttles clock to an Earth based clock... the shuttles time is off by .000000001 seconds (or somthing to that degree) both clocks are synced before the launch... the reason for the disparity is because the gravitational field cause by earths mass is actually distorting time.. the farther you get away from that field the less effect this gravitational field has on the space\time surrounding earth... you can say it wrinkles space\ time a bit.. Also how astronomers calculate the size of planets is usually by the amount of distortion of space time which is seen from the light from the sun has... its not that they actually see the planet..so if we can master gravity then we can possibly master long distance space flight within our galaxy and possibly time travel.... We just need a miniature particle accelerator.. element 115 and 3 waveguides to triangulate the target destination a I hope I am alive to see this when it happens.
Originally posted by thefreepatriot
remember the craft would not be going faster then light... Einsteins law will still remain intact... you will be merely compressing\bending spacetime... One way you can see this in action is.. take a piece of paper which represents ource space time plane... then put an A for departure point in one end and B for destination... Whats the fastest way to get there? most people would say a straight line... wrong bend the paper anyway you wish so that the the departure point meets the destination... Gravity can bend space\time as evidenced by measuring the space shuttles clock to an Earth based clock... the shuttles time is off by .000000001 seconds (or somthing to that degree) both clocks are synced before the launch... the reason for the disparity is because the gravitational field cause by earths mass is actually distorting time.. the farther you get away from that field the less effect this gravitational field has on the space\time surrounding earth... you can say it wrinkles space\ time a bit.. Also how astronomers calculate the size of planets is usually by the amount of distortion of space time which is seen from the light from the sun has... its not that they actually see the planet..so if we can master gravity then we can possibly master long distance space flight within our galaxy and possibly time travel.... We just need a miniature particle accelerator.. element 115 and 3 waveguides to triangulate the target destination a I hope I am alive to see this when it happens.
The currently accepted value for the Hubble constant is 70 km/sec/Mpsc. A straightfor-ward conversion into SI units gives H = 2.17× 10−18 (m/s)/m. This tells us that one meter of space expands to two meters of space if one were prepared to wait two billion billion seconds or sixty five billion years. The fundamental idea behind the warp drive presented in this paper is to increase Hubbles constant such that space no longer expands at such a sedentary rate, but locally expands at an arbitrarily fast velocity. For example, if we want space to locally expand at the speed of light, a simple calculation shows us by what factor we would need to increase H.
Originally posted by Enigma Publius
Originally posted by thefreepatriot
remember the craft would not be going faster then light... Einsteins law will still remain intact... you will be merely compressing\bending spacetime... One way you can see this in action is.. take a piece of paper which represents ource space time plane... then put an A for departure point in one end and B for destination... Whats the fastest way to get there? most people would say a straight line... wrong bend the paper anyway you wish so that the the departure point meets the destination... Gravity can bend space\time as evidenced by measuring the space shuttles clock to an Earth based clock... the shuttles time is off by .000000001 seconds (or somthing to that degree) both clocks are synced before the launch... the reason for the disparity is because the gravitational field cause by earths mass is actually distorting time.. the farther you get away from that field the less effect this gravitational field has on the space\time surrounding earth... you can say it wrinkles space\ time a bit.. Also how astronomers calculate the size of planets is usually by the amount of distortion of space time which is seen from the light from the sun has... its not that they actually see the planet..so if we can master gravity then we can possibly master long distance space flight within our galaxy and possibly time travel.... We just need a miniature particle accelerator.. element 115 and 3 waveguides to triangulate the target destination a I hope I am alive to see this when it happens.
sorry but einstein did say if you could fold the paper as u say, the a wormhole would allow you to do this.