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Post by Stone on Aug 11, 2003 17:44:25 GMT -5
Has anybody got some interesting theories?
Has anybody heard of Zero-point energy being used to power a 'Warp Drive'? If the scientists are correct about Zero-point energy, then we are alotcloser to it than most think. Infact, It could happen within our lifetime.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 11, 2003 21:06:13 GMT -5
Wow, that'd be pretty cool. It'd open up so many new doors...
That said, I don't really have any theories. I'm quite interested in the time dilation though...I don't really understand it. Anyone have any links about it?
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Post by Stone on Aug 11, 2003 21:11:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this is what you are asking  If you create a bubble that can slow down time to a fraction (of our perception) around a vessel, you could travel for what seems like thousands/millions of years in our time, but everything in the vessel would only slightly age. The vessel could cross the galaxy but to the people inside it would be like just going on a short trip. |
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Post by ZBoxDemon on Aug 11, 2003 21:32:15 GMT -5
I have heard about warp brive and stuff being developed. my dad said that lockheed was working on for a Quantum Gravitational Drive while he stll worked there. ZPE might be along the same lines. As it deals with energy on the quantum level. Since ZPE is ubitquitous and isotropic (even in outer space), it can be used for essentially unlimited clean, nonpoluting energy. Apparently, a breakthrough paper in 1994 stated that superluminal (for all you idiots, faster than light) travel was possible. And it does not violate the tenants of the theory of relativity. You can tap into the zero point energy, and use it to produce an antigravity field, so you are essentially unaffected by your surroundings, since gravity's effect on you is nullified, and you can go as fast as fuck. I personally wouln't get my hopes up for seeing this technology anytime soon. The technology will be suppressed as long as oil companies are in power and the PTO has anything to say about it. There have been numerous advanced nonconvental technologies that have been repressed by the U.S. Patent Office because well, it is unconventional.
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Post by Stone on Aug 12, 2003 1:27:14 GMT -5
It is also unbelievably dangerous. The energy released from one atom is over 100 (or else it's 1,000 or 1,000,000... I can't remember) times greater than all the energy released by the sun in it's entire lifetime. All that energy being released at once would have a catastrophic effect on our universe.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 12, 2003 2:01:37 GMT -5
If you create a bubble that can slow down time to a fraction (of our perception) around a vessel, you could travel for what seems like thousands/millions of years in our time, but everything in the vessel would only slightly age. The vessel could cross the galaxy but to the people inside it would be like just going on a short trip. Well, yeah, but where does the bubble come from? Why, exactly, would superluminal speed require such temporal distortion? |
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Post by ZBoxDemon on Aug 12, 2003 2:59:33 GMT -5
Because, as you approach the speed of light, your mass and momentum go to infinity. So without some kind of bubble, you would never achieve the speed of light or faster. Plus you might get crushed. In other words, if a brick travelling at light speed hit the earth, the earth would be destroyed.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 12, 2003 3:08:01 GMT -5
Okay, why do your mass and momentum go to infinity, if that's not what happens to light?
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Post by ZBoxDemon on Aug 12, 2003 3:42:47 GMT -5
because light is energy and has no mass to begin with. I do not know why mass and momentum go infinite at C, but they do. I should rephrase that and say anything with mass to begin with's mass goes to infinity at the speed of light. anything from a measely electron to kelly Osbourne, they all do it.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 12, 2003 3:52:43 GMT -5
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.
/me beats head on table.
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Post by Stone on Aug 12, 2003 16:54:23 GMT -5
If I remember correctly...
e=mc2 - energy=mass X speed of light2
so
e/m=c2 - energy divided by mass =speed of light 2
Now, as you approach the speed of light, the energy increases. As the speed of light is always constant, that means for the e=mc2 to be true, the mass must change. It's the energy that becomes infinite, but the mass becomes zero.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 12, 2003 22:47:28 GMT -5
If I remember correctly... Yep...sounds right. |
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Post by Xaroc on Aug 19, 2003 4:16:57 GMT -5
It all seems quite reasonable to me.
"George, you know I was wondering, you know if you were traveling though outer space, you know like going really fast like the speed of light you know. Then all of a sudden you started screaming like AAAHHHH AAHHHHH!!!! You think that your brain would blow up?"
-Stanley Spadowski
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