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Originally posted by Strapping Young Lad
Having worked in optics for over a decade and having studied the physics of light the "law" that nothing can go faster than light never made sense to me. Without even getting into the theory of relativity and light theory Ive always thought you could break the argument down pretty simply. Like who says that there should be a law saying that its impossible that anybody can outrun my cousins 750hp blown 87 Monte Carlo SS?
Ive delved abit into Einsteins theories. I get the theory of relativity thats fine. Makes perfect sense. But when it gets down to there being nothing possible at all in the infinite expanse of the universe that can go faster than light that its just physically impossible just never seemed right but hey...I mean its Einstein right? I dont know all of his masterful theory work but Ive just allways thought hes just flat wrong on this one.
If anyone out there can post in laymans terms why hes right and all these brilliant scientists decades later are wrong then please feel free to educate...
Originally posted by Ironclad
Light has 0 mass.
An object with mass can never be pushed to a speed of an object that has no mass, even if it uses the Object with 0 mass as a propelant.
On the other hand, one can theoretically, Use a very, very strong electro magnetic field to litterally pull space toward you & then push it away behind you.
Originally posted by Ironclad
In theory, you might only be travelling at a speed of 50mph & yet you cover a distance that you would aquire at a speed several times the speed of light.
Originally posted by Ironclad
Common theory. Just got some unknown variables due to the fact we cannot at this time, produce a energy field strong enough to manipulate 0.E on a massive scale.
[edit on 12/23/2007 by Ironclad]
Originally posted by welivefortheson
electromagnetism is mass.
one day youl see it.
One of the main points used by debunkers of Aliens having ever reached Earth is that they are just too far away, that it would take millions of light years to reach us and that nothing can ever travel faster than the speed of light.
However a blockbuster new paper, to be published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society early 2008, changes all of that by stating that infact the laws of physics do allow such a device if certain methods to use these laws are employed to propell it.
Originally posted by yahn goodey
reply to post by Spoodily
thanks spoodily for making it sound so simple---really i mean it-----i have the hardest time to try and figure complicated things out and you make it look so easy----i'm a tad jealous-----not to mention awkward---last time i jerked out the table cloth from under the dishes---they all travelled with the cloth------got to keep on trying ?
Originally posted by ZeuZZ
The Current Status of the Warp Drive Proposal; Quantum Field Constraints; Photon Propagation through the Warp Field; Alternative Faster than Light Drives. Where the latter may be based upon alternative versions of Einstein’s gravity such as Brans-Dicke theory or Yilmaz theory, or based upon alternative suggestions for interstellar travel such as the Krasnikov tube and wormholes.
Confirmed Speakers
Casimir Energy: A Fuel for Traversable Wormholes
Remo Garattini, Bergamo University, Italy
Computer Tensor Codes to Design the Warp Drive
Claudio Maccone, International Academy of Astronautics
Warp Drive: From Imagination to Reality
Jeremy Gardiner
The Status of the Warp Drive
Kelvin Long
Warp Drive: A New Approach
Richard K. Obousy & Gerald Cleaver, Department of Physics, Baylor University, Texas
Warp Drives in Cosmology
Pedro F. González-Díaz, Instituto de Física Fundamental “Blas Cabrera”, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Can the Flyby Anomalies be Explained by a Modification of Inertia
M.E. McCulloch
Space Teleportation with Present Day Technology (Poster)
Yvan Bozzonetti
Originally posted by projectvxn
Dr. Evgeny Podkletnov developed a gravitic pulse generator that travels at 64c which is 64 times the speed of light using EM fields and superconductive materials. Below is a link to the actual research paper.
arxiv.org...
Originally posted by tomcat ha
i actually remember a large bombshell article that said that according to one guys vision of quatum physics we can reach a speed of 369 times the speed of light.
Originally posted by projectvxn
Only for a tv show to be made about it.