Space Warping? Eh?

[Tycoon101]

I was reading in 'Popular Science' today about some scientists who developed a theory about bending negative matter into a sphere around a spaceship, compressing the space ahead of the ship and expanding the space behind the ship, thus allowing speeds beyond the speed of light and an effective way of teleportation!

Now, this isn't anything more than a concept, but does this seem at all feasable? Read the article for more details.

And yes, it IS confusing

 

[Perfection]

Popular Science = Crap

There's no reason to believe in the existance of "negative matter" or "negative energy". The feasibility is remote at best.

 

[ainwood]

There's no reason to believe in the existance of "negative matter" or "negative energy". The feasibility is remote at best.

So you don't believe in anti-matter? I'm surprised.

 

[Perfection]

So you don't believe in anti-matter? I'm surprised.

Antimatter is not the same as negative matter. Negative matter consists of particles with negative mass, antimatter is thought to have a positive mass.

 

[ainwood]

Really? I assumed anti-matter == negative matter (name changed with creative license from the author).

 

[Raisin Bran]

well in the movie Dune they did fold space!

on a more serious note ..... I know squat about physics but I always beileved that teleportation was something we can acheive. Imagine the impact on the world. Transportation going kaput, world economy shifting and distance irrelevant!

wow ... dont know if its true!

 

[Perfection]

Really? I assumed anti-matter == negative matter (name changed with creative license from the author).

Nope, though there are some more controversial theories that state that antimatter exhibits antigravity.

 

[Tycoon101]

Yes, my terminology is wonky, but who cares?
There are the problems of stopping the ship, turning it around etc. But if the world collaborates, which it won't, this could possibly be partially finished by the turn of the century. Negative matterark Matter:The Black of Space. If it is warped then anything is, (possibly), possible.

 

[Perfection]

Yes, my terminology is wonky, but who cares?

I do and you should! If I can't tell what the hell you are talking about then you've failed as an effective communicator!

There are the problems of stopping the ship, turning it around etc. But if the world collaborates, which it won't, this could possibly be partially finished by the turn of the century. Negative matterark Matter:The Black of Space. If it is warped then anything is, (possibly), possible.

That assumes it's possible in the first place, which I'm not placing any bets on. It relies on the existance of exotic particles outside of the realm of mainstream physics. At this point it's little more than a pipe dream.

How can you have a timeframe figured out, if you have no idea if it would work, and you have no idea how to practically build it?

 

[punkbass2000]

My limited understanding of the subject is that the proposal is feasible, but it would require a near impossible amount of energy.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

Wouldn't negative matter create negative-gravity then? (outward repellent force)

Matter is a form of energy, and the only negative form there is for it, is gravity.

 

[Urederra]

Nope, though there are some more controversial theories that state that antimatter exhibits antigravity.

Man... I thought it was an original idea of mine.

 

[Perfection]

My limited understanding of the subject is that the proposal is feasible, but it would require a near impossible amount of energy.

Your understanding is incorrect. There is little evidence supporting that it is even possible!

Man... I thought it was an original idea of mine.

Nah, but it is an interesting one.

Wouldn't negative matter create negative-gravity then? (outward repellent force)

Yes

 

[punkbass2000]

Your understanding is incorrect. There is little evidence supporting that it is even possible!

Heh, well tell that to the physicist who wrote the book I read.

 

[Perfection]

Heh, well tell that to the physicist who wrote the book I read.

Which physicist/book are you talking about?

(and remember, theoretical physicists spend thier whole careers making up this crazy stuff, a lot of it doesn't pan out)

 

[punkbass2000]

Lawrence M. Krauss. It may be true that it won't pan out, but I don't think you're qualified to make that assessment.

 

[Perfection]

Lawrence M. Krauss. It may be true that it won't pan out, but I don't think you're qualified to make that assessment.

Which one of his books?

Here's the bare bones of it. There's no experimental evidence that indicates FTL is possible. It has never been observed and it results in some nasty conflicts with current theory. I doubt Krauss provides any evidence against this.

Certain unverified speculative theories allow for the possibility of FTL. That's the extent of FTL in physics.

 

[Vietcong]

thears one major problem with light speed travle

one thing is u can never travle at light speed, u can travle at 99.99999% of the speed of light, but never 100% the speed of light.
allso, say u travle at light speed around the our galixy, it whold take years and years of travle, but becus time slows down for u when u travle that fast, when u come back to earth, thear will not even be an earth. the sun whold have bernt out billions of years ago. u may have been gone 56 years your time, but earth time it whold have been 10 billion years.

 

[Vietcong]

well in the movie Dune they did fold space!

on a more serious note ..... I know squat about physics but I always beileved that teleportation was something we can acheive. Imagine the impact on the world. Transportation going kaput, world economy shifting and distance irrelevant!

wow ... dont know if its true!

it wholdnt realy work all that well

what u do is scan a body, seend the atoms of the disasimbled body from point a to pint b.

that not how it realy works.
u scan the body and rather then send the atoms from point a to point b, u simly take the atoms already at point b and asemble them to make a copy of u. the thing is ur still at pont a, and now thear are 2 of u. so u simply destroy the original copy of u at point a.

 

[Vietcong]

allso, u need about 2000 punds of fule, for every 1 pound on the ship including the ship its self, and every thing eals. so just say thears a ship that is 1 pound, u need 2000 pounds to move it. but then u need another 2000 pounds for every 1 pound of fule. but now u allso need another 2000 pounds of fule for ever 1 pound of the 2nd take of fuel.
and that gose on and on and on.

the only way around it whold be to build some kindof antimater generatior and anti mater engin.
thear already is a ainti mater generatior, but only makes 1 atom ever year or something realy slow like that.. blus its a mile in diameter or something.