NASA May Have Accidentally Discovered Faster-Than-Light Travel

The idea of faster-than-light travel has been one of the greatest staples in science fiction for as long as the genre has been around.

The idea of traveling to other planets with terrestrial technology seemed impossible for a long time – but, with the power of faster-than-light travel, moving from planet to planet would be almost instantaneous.

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>We used a cylindrical cavity for the warp-field interferometer instead of a frustum shape because we didn’t want to create a force with this unit, but instead we needed just a large densification of the Q-V along the active path length of the laser beam while it was traversing the resonant cavity’s centerline volume.<

Ha, well that’s your problem right there then. A frustum shape would have registered more feasible readings along much of the discernible diametric, had you controlled for all external quantum gradients and variable internal entropy.

No they haven’t – They haven’t use exotic particles, so it’s not ever going to be a component of an FTL drive.

Spiny Norman said:

No they haven’t – They haven’t use exotic particles, so it’s not ever going to be a component of an FTL drive.

Perhaps you don’t need exotic particles

Cymek said:

Spiny Norman said:

No they haven’t – They haven’t use exotic particles, so it’s not ever going to be a component of an FTL drive.

Perhaps you don’t need exotic particles

The current theory requires it. The chances of it not being required are somewhat less than slim.

Spiny Norman said:

Cymek said:

Spiny Norman said:

No they haven’t – They haven’t use exotic particles, so it’s not ever going to be a component of an FTL drive.

Perhaps you don’t need exotic particles

The current theory requires it. The chances of it not being required are somewhat less than slim.

Bullshit, you just fit a flux capacitor across the eigeininductor.

at this stage of our development FTL is a bad idea

what’s going to happen when on some alien planet apache helicopter gunships turn up and start shooting up the locals or exporting our corrosive religions ?

wookiemeister said:

at this stage of our development FTL is a bad idea

what’s going to happen when on some alien planet apache helicopter gunships turn up and start shooting up the locals or exporting our corrosive religions ?

Thats actually quite possible once it became more common
Plus we’d turn it into an FTL weapon

FTL would be worse than the atomic bomb

wookiemeister said:

FTL would be worse than the atomic bomb

A 1 kg mass traveling at 99% of the speed of light would have a kinetic energy of 5.47×1017 joules. In explosive terms, it would be equal to 132 megatons of TNT or approximately 82 megatons more than the theoretical max yield of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. 1 kg of mass-energy is 8.99×1016 joules or about 21.5 megatons of TNT

We might need another thread on why faster-than-light travel is in violation of known physics.

Cymek said:

wookiemeister said:

FTL would be worse than the atomic bomb

A 1 kg mass traveling at 99% of the speed of light would have a kinetic energy of 5.47×1017 joules. In explosive terms, it would be equal to 132 megatons of TNT or approximately 82 megatons more than the theoretical max yield of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. 1 kg of mass-energy is 8.99×1016 joules or about 21.5 megatons of TNT

I get 4.4 × 10¹⁶ J

this device is moving the vehicle linearly ?

sounds like problems

Bubblecar said:

We might need another thread on why faster-than-light travel is in violation of known physics.

It’s not.

Cymek said:

Perhaps you don’t need exotic particles

Just Mozart’s 40th symphony?