Hyper Drive! Engage!

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:30 pm

Hyper Drive might be a reality within the next century! It is a theory on paper as we speak (and has been since WWII).

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=337

MaestroMan · Post by **MaestroMan** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:22 am

Thats fucking awesome, hope that pulls through

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:14 pm

The first test of a potential hyperdrive is probally going to result in a bunch of dead cats.

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:35 pm

a mammoth wrote:The first test of a potential hyperdrive is probally going to result in a bunch of dead cats.

Good

I think it would be amazing to see this happen sometime during my lifetime.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:47 pm

University of Goettingen

Thats 10km away from where I lived in Germany

This stuff is nothing new to me though

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:53 pm

a mammoth wrote:The first test of a potential hyperdrive is probally going to result in a bunch of dead cats.

I think you're thinking of Edwin Schr

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:36 pm

I want to go at ludacris speed. But donesn't anyone think that it would be much way easyer to forgo all that space and just tear a hole near you then tear another hole at the spot you want to go, then just pop some space in between and boom! you walk through and you're there. To bad no holes in space have every been made.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:15 pm

a mammoth wrote:I want to go at ludacris speed. But donesn't anyone think that it would be much way easyer to forgo all that space and just tear a hole near you then tear another hole at the spot you want to go, then just pop some space in between and boom! you walk through and you're there. To bad no holes in space have every been made.

Wormholes and for the second statement it's suspected wrong.

They think there are multiple universe attached.What happens now happens somewhere else a little bit different.

It's all theory though

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:28 pm

No, light speed is too slow. We must go to...Ludicrous Speed!

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:32 pm

Light speed = the maximum speed of any particle within our universe, photons are just the fastest particles and travel at this maximum speed.

A hyperdrive would force you into this sub-universe where this law of physics doesn't apply and the time-distortion of high speeds doesn't occur. Therefore, with only a burst of forward momentum you can achieve a speed higher than the speed of light, then, when you have finished the trip, return to our universe and viola, you've traveled faster than light (and if your lucky, you may see yourself where you started)

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:56 pm

FleetAdmiralBacon wrote:Light speed = the maximum speed of any particle within our universe, photons are just the fastest particles and travel at this maximum speed.

Photons aren't alone. Theoretical virtual particles such as gravitons move at the speed of light too.

The Hyperdrive here would theoretically allow you to alter the laws of physics (thus the speed of light) to allow you to move faster than our (current) speed of light.

jks · Post by **jks** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:48 pm

I've seen theories that involve causing intense local space-time warping while keeping a small thread attached to the real universe, and then moving this "bubble" through space time, thus allowing you to go at any speed you want. Since you are not actually moving inside the universe you created, the laws of physics do not apply.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:22 pm

Will there be a Ludacris speed?

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:46 pm

Awesome. It's amazing how fast science progresses these days...

MaestroMan · Post by **MaestroMan** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:40 am

rossmum wrote:Awesome. It's amazing how fast science progresses these days...

I would go more along the lines of 'scary' ... and at that, it's scary what can happen in space > Have you heard the theory, or reality, can't remeber though: If someone goes off in space at the speed of light for ten years, and their brother stays on earth, when the person who has been traveling returns, they will be some thing like 7-8 years younger than their brother who stayed on Earth...

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:42 am

MaestroMan wrote:
rossmum wrote:Awesome. It's amazing how fast science progresses these days...
I would go more along the lines of 'scary' ... and at that, it's scary what can happen in space > Have you heard the theory, or reality, can't remeber though: If someone goes off in space at the speed of light for ten years, and their brother stays on earth, when the person who has been traveling returns, they will be some thing like 7-8 years younger than their brother who stayed on Earth...

It is impossible for anyone, or anything to travel at the speed of light (excluding of course the theories described here). What you are thinking of is a consequence of Einstein's theory of relativity. Einsteins theory proposes (and is supported by inumerable evidence) that there is no 'universal time' and that time and space are one entity. Therefore if one were to travel at near light speed (not light speed, according to Einstein's theory traveling at the speed of light would require the expenditure of infinite energy), local space-time would be warped and so your 'time reading' would differ from an outside observer. If you think general relativity is wierd, you should read up on quantum physics. Suffice it to say that when you start looking small enough (electrons, quarks, gluons, that kind of stuff), the laws of physics beging to break down and things start to behave very strangely.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:43 am

The_Hushed_Casket wrote:It is impossible for anyone, or anything to travel at the speed of light

What about light itself?

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:47 am

The faster you go, the slower time is, but that's in our local space time.
So if you were traveling at 99.99% the speed of light, ten years for you could be 1,000 years here on earth.

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:16 am

gh0570fchurch wrote:
The_Hushed_Casket wrote:It is impossible for anyone, or anything to travel at the speed of light
What about light itself?

Alright, it's impossible to travel faster than the speed of light.

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:21 am

The_Hushed_Casket wrote:
gh0570fchurch wrote:
The_Hushed_Casket wrote:It is impossible for anyone, or anything to travel at the speed of light
What about light itself?
Alright, it's impossible to travel faster than the speed of light.

Or simply, it is impossible to travel faster than light.