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June 11, 2009 -- "Star Trek" makes faster-than-light travel look easy, but according to new calculations by Italian physicists, a warp drive could easily create a black hole that would incinerate any passengers on a space craft and then suck Earth into a black hole.
"Warp drives are so far the best case scenario to attain faster-than-light travel," said Stefano Finazzi of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies. This paper "makes it much harder to realize, if not almost impossible, warp drives."
Originally posted by CaptainCharisma
It seems everything cool can possibly make a black hole and destroy us all. First of all the LHC and now warp drive.
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
Since the 'Star Trek' version of Warp Drive is a way to travel through subspace, I am hard pressed to see how this would cause a black hole. A black hole is formed by large amounts of dense matter. Where exactly does all this matter come from (stellar amounts) within a warp drive engine?
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Warp drives are the second and more appealing option. A ship can't move through space faster than the speed of light. But with enough energy, space itself can move faster than the speed of light.
In normal space any object approaching the speed of light will increase in mass exponentially, and require an exponential increase in the amount of power needed to propel it forward. dsc.discovery.com...
The biggest sticking point to a extra dimension-based warp drive? The entire mass of Jupiter would have to be converted into pure energy to power it. dsc.discovery.com...
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General relativity predicts that as an object collapses to form a black hole, it will eventually reach a point of infinite density.
Originally posted by Pilas Odor
Geometry says the the shortest distance between two points will be a straight line, BUT, since space can be warped, the shortest distance will be 0. Fold the paper (space) and make the two points (spaceship/destination) touch each other. That's a warp drive! There's no movement, no distance, no velocity.
Why would you go to the mountain, if the mountain can come to you?
[edit on 14-6-2009 by Pilas Odor]
Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
Since the 'Star Trek' version of Warp Drive is a way to travel through subspace, I am hard pressed to see how this would cause a black hole. A black hole is formed by large amounts of dense matter. Where exactly does all this matter come from (stellar amounts) within a warp drive engine?
Originally posted by DaddyBare
I need to point out an electron has mass not much mass, but still... Therefore if there was a chance that the mass of that electron were to become infinitely massive at superluminal speeds we would have seen that in early testing...