Have we reached the limit of inventions in technology
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somenormalguy
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Found this in dna today.... Star Trek's warp drive not beyond realm of realityScientists say a warp drive that will allow spacecraft to travel faster than light -- popularised in television’s Star Trek -- may not be as unrealistic as once thoughtA warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevents anything from moving faster than light, the Discovery News reported.A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.“There is hope,” Harold “Sonny” White of NASA’s Johnson Space Center said Friday at the 100 Year Starship Symposium, a meeting to discuss the challenges of interstellar spaceflight.An Alcubierre warp drive would involve a football-shape spacecraft attached to a large ring encircling it. This ring, potentially made of exotic matter, would cause space-time to warp around the starship, creating a region of contracted space in front of it and expandedMeanwhile, the starship itself would stay inside a bubble of flat space-time that wasn’t being warped at“Everything within space is restricted by the speed of light. But the really cool thing is space-time, the fabric of space, is not limited by the speed of light,” explained Richard Obousy, president of Icarus Interstellar, a non-profit group of scientists and engineers devoted to pursuing interstellar spaceflight.With this concept, the spacecraft would be able to achieve an effective speed of about 10 times the speed of light, all without breaking the cosmic speed limit.The only problem is, previous studies estimated the warp drive would require a minimum amount of energy about equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter.But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.Furthermore, if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced“The findings I presented today change it from impractical to plausible and worth further investigation. The additional energy reduction realized by oscillating the bubble intensity is an interesting conjecture that we will enjoy looking at in the lab,” the Discovery News quoted White as telling SPACE.com.White and his colleagues have begun experimenting with a mini version of the warp drive in their laboratory.They set up what they call the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer at the Johnson Space Center, essentially creating a laser interferometer that instigates micro versions of space-time warps.“We’re trying to see if we can generate a very tiny instance of this in a tabletop experiment, to try to perturb space-time by one part in 10 million,” WhiteHe called the project a “humble experiment” compared to what would be needed for a real warp drive, but said it represents a promising first step.And other scientists stressed that even outlandish-sounding ideas, such as the warp drive, need to be considered if humanity is serious about traveling to“If we’re ever going to become a true spacefaring civilization, we’re going to have to think outside the box a little bit, were going to have to be a little bit audacious,” Obousy said.Ps: Sorry for not posting the link.... I don't know how to get a link from the dna app.
U shud have read what i posted prior to that! 
I really dont think scientists are politicians, who burst out loose canons! Also, do watch the series on Discovery Science like Thru the Wormhole......just amazing things are being dished out by them.
I really dont think scientists are politicians, who burst out loose canons! Also, do watch the series on Discovery Science like Thru the Wormhole......just amazing things are being dished out by them.
dragon5677
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Invisibility Cloak!!!
U shud have read what i posted prior to that! I really dont think scientists are politicians, who burst out loose canons! Also, do watch the series on Discovery Science like Thru the Wormhole......just amazing things are being dished out by them.
Yup that show is simply awesome just downloaded Season 1
U shud have read what i posted prior to that!
I really dont think scientists are politicians, who burst out loose canons! Also, do watch the series on Discovery Science like Thru the Wormhole......just amazing things are being dished out by them.Yup that show is simply awesome just downloaded Season 1
dragon5677
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I m waiting for Season 3 to start here in India.....i guess we have been shown till season 2. Thats what appeared on Wiki.
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