Star Trek technologies: faster than light speed travel, and teleportation?

Question

Will we ever be able to travel faster than the speed of light?

On Star Trek, space ships travel at hundreds of times the speed of light.

And what about teleportation? Will we ever have transporters, as seen on Star Trek I have heard theories that this could one day be a reality.

Answer 1

actually, faster than light travel is not possible. Even in Star Trek, they were only able to achieve a 0.9 of the speed of light. There is theory that time can be warped......you don't travel at greater than the speed of light, but bend time like folding a piece of paper......to travel from one end of the paper to the other, you just fold it and you are there.

Science has already transported an atom quite a distance in a lab.....

Not so sure you will see any of this in your lifetime......in a few hundred years, once science and government stop hiding technology, this may happen......if it isn't already.

Answer 2

If you look at the original Star Trek and some of the items that they came up with for it, you will notice that we have already surpassed some of the technology. Look at the communication devices. Originally, they were about the size of large cell phones. Motorola actually bought the rights to use the design for their first series of flip phones, if i remember correctly. Now we have communication devices even smaller than the badges they wear in The Next Generation and later spin-offs.

Some may say it will take forever to gain the level of technology that appears in Star Trek, but they would be wrong. We have already attained that level in some areas. The rest are sure to follow.

Answer 3

Warp speed is quite possible in theory But developing a macj]hine that can survive the inertia of this speed has yet to be developed.
Regarding the teleport. YES! Teleportation of an object was achiebed at a University in London 3 years ago. The first object never returned. The machine was modified and a small object dissapeared and reappeared some 12 feet from whence it departed.

So Teleportation has been achieved but not to the level of Startrek.. well not yet but it will come.

Answer 4

Faster Than Light (FTL)? Not in our lifetimes nor the next. The power requirements would be astronomical (no pun intended). Then there is the shielding to consider. Hitting even the smallest speck of dust (at near light speed) would be catastrophic, to say the least. To go FTL, there would have to be some method of bypassing regular space (you need to go into subspace, like in ST or Babylon 5). FTL would be damn near impossible in regular space.

Transporters - feasible (for small objects, not humans). This time it's not necessarily a power issue, but a computational one. Even with the computational power we have now, it wouldn't be a drop in the bucket. We're talking atoms here. The computer would have to track every atom in the body and how to reassemble each one after transportation. Think of how many atoms are in a human body. Now I know how McCoy felt about having his atoms scattered.

Answer 5

suprisingly enough most of the theorys and tech on star trek is based on something real. Warp drive could be very possible not in our lifetime but they just might be able to pull it off (damned math)I want a food replicator so i can say TEA EARL GREY HOT

Answer 6

Its called fiction for a reason.

For instance, were warping space to be even possible (it is theoretically debatable) it would require rapidly rotating a solid disc roughly the size of the galaxy. Not practical on a space ship.

Replicators violate basic quantum conservation laws, so are impossible. They would also consume an amount of energy close to that output by a small star.

Teleportation is impossible because of the uncertainty relation - you could not extract all of the information from an object in order to transmit it. This is such a findamental law of physics there is no prospect of bypassing it.

Answer 7

IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER 500 YEARS FOR US TO REACH THAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGIES.