faster than light?

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Re: faster than light?

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There is a theoretical method for travelling faster than light involving spacetime.

- Position a craft in a certain area of space.
- Distort the spacetime at the fore of the craft to contract.
- Distort the spacetime at the aft of the craft to expand.

This will create and arrowhead shape field of spacetime around the craft. According to super relativity theory, the field should 'slip' through the rest of spacetime. Because the accepted physical constants do not neccessarily apply in quantum, the field is likely to be capable of travelling faster than the speed of light. The problem is, the exact speed it will go at is completely unpredictable.[/b]
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I have heard of this method and it is said that it will work. It is something like the "warp drive" in Star Trek where you are in a bubble outside of spacetime (what Kirk called "subspace"). This is what allows ftl travel, you are not part of the universe while you have this bubble distortion around you. But it requires a huge amount of energy to distort spacetime, on the order of 2 or 3 times the energy coming from our sun. Not to say it's insurmountable, though. Just that it'll be a very long time before we can generate that kind of energy and also protect ourselves from it.

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