Earth To Mars In 3hrs **no Joke** |
Earth To Mars In 3hrs **no Joke** |
Jan 5 2006, 05:57 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: 22-October 04 Member No.: 102 |
Just got tipped off to this story
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006 Here is the paper http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theor...sicsaip2005.pdf They could feasibly have a prototype within 5 years!!! Happy New Year indeed everyone. |
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Jan 6 2006, 01:52 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: 16-March 05 Member No.: 198 |
QUOTE (Marslauncher @ Jan 5 2006, 05:57 PM) Just got tipped off to this story http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006 Here is the paper http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theor...sicsaip2005.pdf They could feasibly have a prototype within 5 years!!! Happy New Year indeed everyone. For more info, you might also want to check out: http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/ and especially: http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/heim/theor.../raumfahrt.html ====== Stephen |
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Jan 6 2006, 02:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
My questions - assuming for a moment this method even has a chance of working.
* How would we know if another dimension/universe has a faster speed of light? * How would we find it with this method? * What if the dimension/universe in question does have a faster speed of light, but then that means its other physical laws don't jive with our own and the starship that tries it is either destroyed or stuck in this alternate dimension/universe? * If it does work, is this why we haven't seen ETI - they are all dimension-jumping in their starships? * What if there are beings who live in said dimension/universe who really don't like interlopers from other realities using their reality for a faster ride? This might also explain why we haven't seen ETI yet. Just once I'd like to see a theory of this kind that doesn't invoke the near-magical abilities of alternate dimensions or string physics or need the technology and energy requirements of a Kardashev Type 3 civilization. Or maybe we're still thinking Newtonian and everyone else in the galaxy has gone post-Einsteinian? -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 6 2006, 10:43 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 255 Joined: 4-January 05 Member No.: 135 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 6 2006, 02:31 AM) There is a short SF story (I forget who by) about this. The main character is convinced hyperspace exists, and that the government is covering up work on it. He gets to the heart of the secret project, to be told that yes, hyperspace does exist, and that the speed of light is much, much slower there.... Chris |
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Jan 7 2006, 09:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2542 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
QUOTE (chris @ Jan 6 2006, 02:43 AM) There is a short SF story (I forget who by) about this. The main character is convinced hyperspace exists, and that the government is covering up work on it. He gets to the heart of the secret project, to be told that yes, hyperspace does exist, and that the speed of light is much, much slower there.... George R.R. Martin, "FTA", Analog, 1974. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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