What is Sliders? I know a slider is a person who can jump dimensions.

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Thatguyeric wrote:Let me tell you about something I saw which was an idea for affordable travel at the speed of light. The light in space created microscopic pushes on things. Isaac Newton states that object won't stop until stopped. So the light will keep pushing and pushing this ship until they are eventually the same speed. Now, normal spaceships get pushed from all sides, but this one has a giant dish shape, so one side will be pushed more. What could we do with this, I have no idea, maybe equip it to cameras to get better pictures of something far away?
And on the topic of time travel, our lives are a function of time, I don't see this happening.

I like to think that our lives are a function of perception of linear time... so it would just be a matter of changing perceptions...

So, you think "Sliders" was correct?

Indeed, sliders is a good example.

I actually think in terms of something similar to a multiverse type (From the corner of his eye; Dean Kootz).

Weresloth wrote:What is Sliders? I know a slider is a person who can jump dimensions.

sci fi show from about early 90's

Faster than light travel is theoretically possible. The levels of mass and energy required are simply too much for us to deal with right now.

I remember reading some of Einstein's research on FTL travel. He told us it was impossible for matter and information to be transmitted past this "universal speed limit". During the composition of his energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, he discovered that as matter approaches the speed of light, its kinetic energy is transformed into mass. He said, for an object to reach the speed of light would require an infinite amount of energy, which of course, is impossible.

He also gave us an insight into what FTL travel would be like, imagine it, when a jet is travelling faster than the sound barrier, you cannot hear it coming right? You see it before you hear it because the sound waves cannot go ahead of the jet. So if something was travelling faster than light, you wouldn't see it until it had passed you, the light waves would not be able to go ahead of the object, essentially making it invisible. It is a fascinating subject.

-Istalris-

Slash wrote:Faster than light travel is theoretically possible. The levels of mass and energy required are simply too much for us to deal with right now.

Sorry but on what theory is this possible? because i was pretty sure none rejected the fact that the speed of light was the limit.

personally I reject that there are "limits". We simply are in the age atm that FTL is aquainted with the old" the world is round" syndrome. There is, and always will be improvement on science that will allow for the discovery of new ideas and new technologies. I agree with slash that simply because we dont have the understanding as of yet, doesnt mean it CANT be done, simply it cant be done right now. Consider Black Holes "yesterdays CHATROOM topic". Years ago we couldnt even fathom black holes, yet in present time we are working towards "creating" a black hole. So yes, FTL speed is possible, and one day we will figure it out.

Spankie wrote:personally I reject that there are "limits". We simply are in the age atm that FTL is aquainted with the old" the world is round" syndrome. There is, and always will be improvement on science that will allow for the discovery of new ideas and new technologies. I agree with slash that simply because we dont have the understanding as of yet, doesnt mean it CANT be done, simply it cant be done right now. Consider Black Holes "yesterdays CHATROOM topic". Years ago we couldnt even fathom black holes, yet in present time we are working towards "creating" a black hole. So yes, FTL speed is possible, and one day we will figure it out.

I have to disagree with you. Science isn't the same as superstition. It has been proven in many ways, mostly mathematically, but also in field experiments including some in space that support the theory and give further proof we are going in the right path of understanding our universe.
Giving limitless possibilities is also accepting there's no real understanding of anything, and i believe there's an explanation to how our universe works, i'd say it's like a really sophisticated piece of machinery, with very specific movements and special features. Scientists and many people have dedicated most of their life to give humanity a tiny bit of understanding of it, and i strongly believe they're right.

Of course, there are other ways where we can go faster than the speed of light. Consider wormholes, they are like a tunnel between large spaces of the space-time continum. If we can make a wormhole generator that can create a stable wormhole, then it is quite possible to "travel" faster than the speed of light. We can also use hyperspace drives, or a device that compresses space so that we have to move less to travel faster. Anyway, here are the alternative ways to theoretically travel faster than the speed of light.

Milito wrote:Sorry but on what theory is this possible? because i was pretty sure none rejected the fact that the speed of light was the limit.

Traversable wormholes (that can also be man made with sufficient mass/energy), Lagrange Point lateral acceleration within a massive gravity well, Alcubierre drives, Lorrentz invariance all point to a hole in Einstein's theory. If you know anything about quantum physics you know that c is relative to the observer and not an absolute "speed limit". Just because there isn't sufficient energy to prove it doesn't mean it can't be done. One day Planck scale ramp ups will be common and the proof will be at hand. Nehme is not a quack and photons do travel faster than the speed of light.

To attempt to argue the math required to prove any of this in a forum of this nature would be idiotic at best. The character map would have a heart attack trying to type the first base equation.