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my question
does anyone think faster than light space travel will ever be possible?

OneWingedAngel wrote:my question
does anyone think faster than light space travel will ever be possible?

I would have to answer yes to this question.

Reason being is that in just the last 150 years humanity has been able to make such significant strides in areas such as atomic theory and application, nuclear medicine, and quantum mechanics theory, its just a matter of time until this stage of travel is made palpable to the masses. The culmination of Moore's law has made so many things possible that simple computational power of a calculator is more then what an entire building had 50 years ago. Imagine in another 50 years what we will be capable of...

The only thing that worries me is the lack on interest outside of the scientific and intellectual community and the seeming apathy of the masses when it comes to stages of development outside the day to day movement of their lives.

Although i have to agree with the development in science, faster than light travel is, to this day, impossible even in theory.
If you revise your physics, as long as you're in a frame of reference the speed of light is constant, and it has been considered the "cap" on travel. It wouldn't make much sense to override this speed by any means. What could happen is, i believe, a different kind of travel maybe, something beyond the concept of distance or whatever we are used to.

i remember watching a documentary where mentioned some particles which travel instantaneously which was fascinating forget the name of them though
also what about time travel?

OneWingedAngel wrote:i remember watching a documentary where mentioned some particles which travel instantaneously which was fascinating forget the name of them though
also what about time travel?

In some theories of quantum mechanics the reaction to a specific action occurs before the completion of said action. This quantum tunneling of perception along with intramolecular energy transfer could be a transpose to specific transportation such as FTL.

fast than light space travel.....not sure. now there could be ways around the physics that say you cant [(i.e. wormholes, so called jump gates(to use the in game name) or generating a "warp field" around the space vessel]

not sure so dont quote me but i believe that tachyons are the only particle known to travel faster than light.

my questions are: where would we go? and what would we do when we get there?

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.

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...

mistole wrote:

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?

i remember watching sliders enjoyed that and quantum leap remember that?