2006-09-10 17:29:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Personally I think the Stargate idea is the most likely one, the only problem is that the gate system was created for them(if we created the gate system, international, and interplaentary travel would be possible, but intergalactic would not). Sending energy faster that the speed of light has already been accomplished, it's just turning matter in to energy and back again.
For a ship I think creating a system that can bend space around the area, around the ship, with out damaging the ship making it shoot across the galaxy like an intergalactic marble is the most promising idea. Heavy gravity unfortunately is the only thing we know that can significantly bend space and currently we can't create it at will. I imagine when they find and learn how to create and manipulate gravitons, FTL for people will be a little closer to reality. I'm sure it would take a quantum computer to fly the thing, but we already have those.
2006-09-10 17:45:07 · answer #1 · answered by Future Resident 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm still looking for someone who can prove that people CANNOT travel faster than light with respect to a given observer. Everyone keeps misinterpreting the infamous equation m=m0/sqrt(1-(v^2/c^2)) The mass of a ship with respect to an observer on the ship is invariant unless the ship is accelerating by expelling mass.
Newtonian laws of motion hold for any observers traveling less than .01C with respect to the ship, even if they are traveling at .99C with respect to an "original" observer.
2006-09-11 01:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You and the rest of the theoretical physics world, honey.
2006-09-11 00:32:56 · answer #3 · answered by Rachel S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good luck, and don't hold your breath 'til the "proof" comes along.
2006-09-11 02:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is FTL?
2006-09-11 00:36:47 · answer #5 · answered by robbet03 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋