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We will be able to see history as it is happening. There will be no physical interactions, it will resemble a hologram. We will have the ability to do this anywhere in space with the correct vectors to view the history of Earth.
boymonkey74
reply to post by FryEvans
Wall of text sorry dude I just can't read it.(I have weak eye muscles)
I will read it when you have pressed enter a few times.
Everything in the physical universe is made of fundamentally the same particle. Energy and matter, both consist of the same subatomic photons.
Astyanax
reply to post by boymonkey74
No need to bother reading, you can tell from the first two sentences that it's nonsense.
Everything in the physical universe is made of fundamentally the same particle. Energy and matter, both consist of the same subatomic photons.
Matter consists of quarks and leptons. Photons are force carriers, a different kind of particle that is associated with energy rather than matter. Under certain experimental conditions, photons display a quark structure, but this is fairly esoteric stuff. Real physics is a bit more complicated than E = mc^2.
For people who want to find out more, I recommend The Particle Adventure.
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The only problem is, previous studies estimated the warp drive would require a minimum amount of energy about equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter.
But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.
Furthermore, if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced even more, White found.
"The findings I presented today change it from impractical to plausible and worth further investigation," White told SPACE.com. "The additional energy reduction realized by oscillating the bubble intensity is an interesting conjecture that we will enjoy looking at in the lab."
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It's not nonsense. What he is saying is very theoretical at this point, but the concept makes sense.