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[Descan]

Know what makes me happy?

Warp Drives.

Warp drives make me happy.

[MaximumZero]

Know what makes me happy?

Warp Drives.

Warp drives make me happy.

Take us to Warp 9.

[Criptfeind]

You must live a unhappy life.

[Descan]

No, I mean the fact that they're possibly practical and that right now they're planning to form a fucking warp bubble in the lab!

SCIENCE.

[Scelly9]

No, I mean the fact that they're possibly practical and that right now they're planning to form a fucking warp bubble in the lap!

SCIENCE.

Tell me where to learn more about this.

[Descan]

Google Alcubierre drive. If this turns out to be possible, we'll be able to move a ten meter bubble at 10 times the speed of light, without actually MOVING the ship, so no smashing against the back of the hull!

And that name will become famous!

[miauw62]

I wonder how long it takes for spacetime to stop at 10 times the speed of light.

[miauw62]

does it keep time from being dilated whilst in it?

also, wormholes are another possible way to do FTL travel, so there could be that...

Except for the being squeezed infinitely tight and nigh-certain death part.

[Descan]

Yes, it prevents time dilation. Two years on the ship is two years on Earth. Or at least, that's the theory.

[RedKing]

Well hmm. I was going to point out that the energy requirements for an Alcubierre drive are redonkulous, as are the local spacetime effects, but I see what's got you so excited. Supposedly NASA's worked out a way to get the energy requirement down by orders of magnitude by reshaping the bubble. In theory.

Still problems with the local spacetime effects though. Such as possibly frying everything inside with Hawking radiation, the fact that you might not be able to send information forward in the direction of travel even inside the bubble, and the fact that you're going to be massively distorting spacetime in the vicinity as you travel (and in one model, generate a naked singularity at the front edge of the bubble in motion).

[MetalSlimeHunt]

My roommate is skipping attendance classes because of light rain.

Yes....good.....give in to your sloth and fail!

[FearfulJesuit]

Huh. I might have to rewrite all of my sci-fi story. In my sci-fi story, I invented a state of matter known as a "quark soup," where I handwaved some particle physics and created a state of matter that doesn't have an element or a temperature or anything like that because it's just quarks floating around without any higher structure. The idea was that you could put two bowls of quark soup on opposite sides of the ship, and they would create two black holes, one stronger than the other; the ship would move in the direction of the stronger black hole, faster than light, but would not be sucked in because of the other. The only restriction was that, being quantum, if you observed a quark soup it would stop being nice and destroy everything within a radius of six light-years. The story revolved around a terrorist organization who planned to look at a quark soup to destroy everyone in a heavily populated star system.

[Karlito]

My roommate is skipping attendance classes because of light rain.

Yes....good.....give in to your sloth and fail!

Heh, it's raining where I'm at too and there were only like 10 people in my 8 am class.

[miauw62]

My roommate is skipping attendance classes because of light rain.

Yes....good.....give in to your sloth and fail!

I'd love to walk trough some light drizzle.
Today was the first drizzle that actually had that good rain smell.

[RedKing]

My roommate is skipping attendance classes because of light rain.

Yes....good.....give in to your sloth and fail!

o_o

Please don't tell me he's there on scholarship. That might cause me a 4-hour drive to Boone to beat the everliving shit out of someone.