Scientists: Warp Drive may be possible.

[Ymono37]

They interviewed a guy on AOTS the other night who has some really interesting insights on the idea. He was saying the idea is sound, the practical application of any of this is years and years away. Tried to find a vid, but couldn't due to network blocking at work. I imagine if you go to the Attack of the Show website, you could find it.



He described it as moving space around an object rather than moving through space... kind of a loophole in the laws of physics.

 

[supraman]

Basically warping space time is theoretically possible and allows faster than light travel without breaking the laws of physics, because the "object" you are moving is not moving faster than light, the space bubble around it is. Einstein also theorized you could punch a hole in space time, removing the need to travel faster than light. From smart asian guy on the science channel explained space time as a flat map that can be folded bent crumpled. So he said if you draw a line from point A to point B on a map, if you fold the map to make a and b line up, you could punch a hole right through and be at your destination.....like creating your own worm hole.



The previous problem with all of these theories is the energy required to do such things. That is what this article is about they have a hypothesis that they could greatly reduce the energy needed to do so. i.e. from requiring the energy you could produce by the mass of jupiter to only requiring the energy of the mass of the voyager 1 space probe.







Alot of people think that we will never be able to travel to the stars. All I have to say is, as long as physics allow for something to be done, even if the means to do it seem impossible. I am not putting it past the human race to do it.



What things that we take for granted today, must have seemed impossible yesterday.

We invent our imagination. There was a great documentary a couple years ago called How William Shatner Changed the World and really it was about the impact of Star Trek. Remember the first flip cell phones? designed off the communicators in star trek. It might not be my lifetime but we will travel the galaxy. We will invent true AI. We will unlock the human genome. We had laser weapons in Sci-Fi since the 1950s. They are testing laser weapons now. Sure they aren't the same as the sci-fi weapons but they are still laser weapons. All the HUDs you see in video games? One day soldiers will go to war with something similar.



Just look at Siri from Apple. Love or hate apple if you are a tech nerd you have to find that piece of technology just fucking epic. You don't have to speak a specific syntax to execute a command, you talk normally. THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME.

 

[TSD]

We invent our imagination. There was a great documentary a couple years ago called How William Shatner Changed the World and really it was about the impact of Star Trek. Remember the first flip cell phones? designed off the communicators in star trek. It might not be my lifetime but we will travel the galaxy. We will invent true AI. We will unlock the human genome. We had laser weapons in Sci-Fi since the 1950s. They are testing laser weapons now. Sure they aren't the same as the sci-fi weapons but they are still laser weapons. All the HUDs you see in video games? One day soldiers will go to war with something similar.



Just look at Siri from Apple. Love or hate apple if you are a tech nerd you have to find that piece of technology just fucking epic. You don't have to speak a specific syntax to execute a command, you talk normally. THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME.

I would like to see the code behind voice interpretation software how the program translates the sound to the word. After that it isnt very difficult. coding wise. The logic would be rather simple there would just be alot of it. There are a ton of AI chat bots out there since the early 90's (Eliza). Basically all they do is take what you type look for the nouns to figure out the topic, then the adjectives and verbs to esablish meaning, and match it up to responses. Nowadays they have simply added a "bigger" brain so to speak, with more responses to more phrases. Its a shit ton of crap to code, but relatively uncomplex.

 

[supraman]

I would like to see the code behind voice interpretation software how the program translates the sound to the word. After that it isnt very difficult. coding wise. The logic would be rather simple there would just be alot of it. There are a ton of AI chat bots out there since the early 90's (Eliza). Basically all they do is take what you type look for the nouns to figure out the topic, then the adjectives and verbs to esablish meaning, and match it up to responses. Nowadays they have simply added a "bigger" brain so to speak, with more responses to more phrases. Its a shit ton of crap to code, but relatively uncomplex.

It is still an amazing piece of technology. It is regardless if the code is simple or complex. What matters is it exists now. I wouldn't compare it to HAL9000 since that was an AI but I would compare to the computer on Star Trek: TNG which again pre-dates the 90s (came out in the very late 80s)

 

[JOVE23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvHGAA7WWo

 

[MassHavoc]

Thanks for the video. Not a lot of specifics in there but enough to clear the how up a bit for me.

 

[jakobeast]

Dr. Kaku is the man.



Also, I bet my cousins kid is gonna work on this.

 

[LordKOTL]

It is my understanding (Trekkies feel free to correct me) but a warp drive "warps" the space around it. So in theory the warp drive doesn't move the ship but the space around it.

From my geeky indulgence it's pretty much how it works. The drive supposedly makes an energy "bubble" of normal space around the ship, and then flings that energy bubble at superluminous speeds.



Theorteically it's possible, and would solve the "twin paradox" of superluminous speeds.