Are there any infinite sources of energy that I don't know about?

Question

Id like to know why people are still in space if there are no sources of infenet energy to take humans anywhere further than our solar system. Whats going on up there?

Answer 1

Theres all sorts of energy. Out in deep space energy is created from nothing, stays for a few microthousandths of a second then disappears again. We live in a sea of energy, its everywhere- kinda like the force.

The trick, is figuring out a way to tap into it. Look up "Moray valve" on the internet- supposedly some guy named Moray figured out a way to tap into this energy back in the 1950's but nobody knows how

Answer 2

This is a pretty interesting question really. As many other people here have pointed out, it's whether you can harness the energy which is around us.

For example, everyone remembers that heaps of energy comes out when you split a hydrogen atom (nuclear fission- atom bomb). This is partly what's happening in our sun. In addition, our sun is also smashing hydrogen atoms together to make helium (nuclear fusion- bigger bang than fission). The more you manipulate atoms and molecules, the more you realise how much energy there is to be harnessed. If you want to get even deeper, there's probably plenty of energy stored in the subatomic bonds of atoms too. They're essentially like minature solar systems.

Plus astrophysicists also believe that there's a thing called dark matter which is essentially stuff you can't see (as opposed to the sun, planets, etc, etc you can see). We don't know much about this stuff. I wonder if there's more energy in this too.

Overall, it's too mind boggling to comprehend how much energy is out and about. So if you can work out how to smash all these atoms around without losing a tonne of light and heat (and thus blowing a crater in the earth) we can start heading to the nearest planet as soon as you're ready.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

nothing in our universe is infinite.
at this point human technology can not harness the sources of energy needed to carry human exploration teams beyond the boundaries of the solar system, and even if humans could gain control of such sources, they still will have to cope with very limiting physical and temporal restrictions concerning space travel

Answer 4

"Infinite" is too strong a word for this question. "Virtually inexhaustible" is a better choice. Check out fusion power using 3He. There's enough 3He on the moon, and especially in the gas giant plaents like Uranus and Neptune, to power all human needs for thousands of years.