Faster-than-Light Travel?

[greenpeace]

its not highly probable, its fact in my opinion, considering what we did (see above post)

 

[dutchfire]

You can travel from place A to B faster than Light because light can't reach every place.

example: you start at A, go to B, and | are mirrors.


........... |
A .........| .......| ..........B.
.....................|


You could travel from A to B faster than Light in this case.

 

[Sidhe]

Didn't the freeze light? So technically you're going faster than it when you do that.

Yes it was by using Boze-einstein condensates IIRC it was very cool sodium atoms and the light did not slow down as such as you would think of it, it's emision and absorption by the atoms merely meant it took longer to go from point a to b, in some cases appearing to stop completely, however as it was travelling between atoms it was to all intents and purposes going at the speed of light. Light never propogates at less than c.

Light speed cannot be exceeded according to currently held laws, as a mass aproaches c the amount of energy it needs becomes extraordinarilly large and to actually achieve light speed becomes infinite, thus an object with mass can never reach light speed let alone exceed it, we could be wrong though.

Space travel theories like to introduce things like bending of space to decrease distances, which means you travel less distance but at the same speed, but they are far from producing real engines that could do this. Even more way out is bending space so far you break it, and end up outside of space, or in "hyper space", then the laws of the universe can be broken and you can travel from one point to another incredibly fast, this is sci fi though and although it is considered it is not exactly mainstream.

The answer is no, but we really don't know enough to answer that question absolutely obviously. Like with everything in Physics, since God started playing dice with the universe the fundementals are a bit more grey

 

[Sidhe]

You can travel from place A to B faster than Light because light can't reach every place.

example: you start at A, go to B, and | are mirrors.


........... |
A .........| .......| ..........B.
.....................|


You could travel from A to B faster than Light in this case.

If you treat light as discrete photons, none of these "particles" ever travel faster than light(c). I'd like to see a link to this, it doesn't sound very plausable but then I'm not sure exactly what you mean anyway.

 

[Sidhe]

its not highly probable, its fact in my opinion, considering what we did (see above post)

If you mean your post, no one understands the spooky effect at a distance of quantum teleportation, suffice to say it may merely be an experimental misinterpritation, and it is entirely wrong to say with current knowledge, dealing as it does without a classical interpritation that the effect travels faster than light. This proposal usually comes from a misunderstanding of the principles. Try googiling Bell's inequality theorem. There are many reasons why this may occur, the least proposed one is that a particle has actually attained faster than light transfer of information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem

 

[IronMan2055]

nvm the drawing keeps messing up

 

[IronMan2055]

douple post

 

[Perfection]

How can you fail to maintain consistency within a single post?

That's disspassionate frankness, not rudeness.

Actually it is believed that information travels faster than the speed of light. take this for example:

there are two stations 2 light years apart. I throw a green ball at one and a red ball at the other. Once they reach one of the stations then if I, say, get a green ball than I know that, faster than the speed of light, that the other ball is red. Isn't that fascinating! It is possible to know about objects two light years away. But it gets even more amazing..

WHAT?!

There was an actual experiment were we transported one atom to a place one mile away, how it was done you may ask, well..

atoms A and B are similar in every way and are a mile apart. I want to teleport atom C to location A (from B). What was done was that all the information from atom B was transferred to B (thus destroying the atom) and what happened was fascinating! Atom a became atom C thus making it teleport to location A (faster than the speed of light).

Quantum teleportation does not transfer information FTL.

 

[Mr Moron]

Hey, there is always the chance we have some massive mistunderstanding about how the universe works or are missing knowledge that is some huge "except when" about going faster than light.

 

[Perfection]

Hey, there is always the chance we have some massive mistunderstanding about how the universe works or are missing knowledge that is some huge "except when" about going faster than light.

Yeah, but I woudn't bet on it.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Hey, there is always the chance we have some massive mistunderstanding about how the universe works or are missing knowledge that is some huge "except when" about going faster than light.

Even if that's true, I bet the exception won't apply to things as complex as people.

 

[Swissempire]

But the Ancients made the Stargates, surely we can figure something out