Out of Pod Experience

Umm.. oh, look.. bicycle tires.

Actually, I am really hoping this doesn't turn out to be a false hope on their part, and actually results in prototype Warp technology or something akin to it in the next 10 years. Maybe as few as 5, if they get lucky and don't turn NASA inside out in the process. That would be messy.

Seriously though, I am behind this and really hope it happens and I get to see it; in fact, sign me up, I'll go out there into that great unknown. ..well, maybe.. but I'd like to see it tested first and have a look at the technology and results of any and all testing before I make any serious commitments.

Fun fact: the Alcubierre drive is a media darling that no real physicist believes to be realizable under known physics.

Alcubierre described a particular geometry of spacetime that results in what Captain Picard might call a "warp bubble", but maintaining it requires a region of spacetime with negative energy density and creating the bubble in the first place is a complete unknown. There is no known or projected way to create and maintain the necessary geometry--Alcubierre just showed that it's a valid solution for Einstein's field equations.

In other words, nope.jpg

Actually, that article is just using a possible theory to explain how NASA 'might' do it. They went back to something someone cam up with years ago, and put it into the equation. There is no reason NASA would be pursuing that particular line of theory in their current development and research.

They are researching though, apparently, and have found mathematical anomalies, (for lack of a better word), which suggest the idea itself is possible, if not this particular implementation of it. They're pursuing that mathematical probability, and seeing where it leads them.

I don't know if the idea as presented, (Warp Drive itself, conceptually), is possible, but a means to travel the stars must be possible outside of familiar conventional physics.

I'd wrap my head around it, but I honestly can't. I wouldn't know where to start. I base myself almost fully in conventional earthbound realities, and have limited ability to conceive of something like a 'Warp Bubble'. Honestly, I don't have a sense it is impossible, but can't conceive of a situation in which it would be probable.

It's sort of like time travel in the sense that the idea itself is almost entirely inconceivable within the realm of what we know. This is why they are doing research; to see how it might be conceivable.

I totally didn't say that on the 1st page or anything

WTB starship that WTFPWNBBQs a solar system upon dropping from warp. CCP, will I get Concordokkened for that?

sign me up...............where the dotted line as long as i have plenty of smokes and plenty of food ill be the first to test the warp drive to go to the great unknown with out any way of getting back. ill go pack my stuff right after this message. no bills no nothing im on it. What if it blows up, well its not like ill give a crap cause ill be dead.lol. i have no fear no remorse no nothing but excitment about it.

yes but it needs to be stressed all over again. I mean, IF Event Horizon happens, that also means that it is quite possible that a future like the one in WH 40k is also possible.