SlipSpace: is a science fiction term for a fictional method of faster-than-light space travel, similar to hyperspace travel, warp drive, or "transfer points" from David Brin's Uplift series.
Is it possible for a few hundereds years, or thousands of years from now, will we able to travel faster than light??
Are we distined to be doomed like the dinosours?
What would the future look life for us?
2007-04-06 14:02:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Ask a similar question in the 1930s, what would happen if a person could travel faster than the speed of sound??? Anyone remember the term sonic barrier? If you tried to prove a theory such as matter moving at the speed of sound, would you use sonic propulsion to move the object? Of course not. You would have a simple power curve showing the start, the point at which the highest acceleration generated, and the point where acceleration ceases, which would be acceleration = to HP/weight. If you were to use gravity or magnetism to propel an object, no matter how small, the result would be the same with respect to light speed. Gravity is not instantaneous. It has the same velocity as light. So the closer you get to light speed, the less thrust you produce when using a source outside of the object. Remember that relative stuff about how as you gain 99+% of light speed that the outside world would seem to stand still. Yet inside the(capsule) object, everything would appear as normal. SO, the propulsive componate must come from the object itself. This is where the combined cumulative thrust factors in. The rest of the sci fi theories about time and space warps are just bunk. Speed is just speed and is a measurement not a magic wand.
2007-04-06 18:37:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All these things would fall under the classification of "wormholes". These are actually mathematically theorized under our current understanding of special and general relativity to be a particular warping of the shape of space-time that connects to aparently distant points.
This would constitute what is known as a "naked singularity", and would pose a serious challenge to our understanding of physics if it were proved that it could exist. It is possible that as we develop a better picture of the interactions between quantum-mechanics and gravity, that we may learn to create wormholes.
HOWEVER. The only theories that suggest thier existance state that they would be exceedingly small in size and would be quite unstable. To keep a wormhole with a diameter of about 2 meters (big enough for a person to walk through) open for one second would require more energy than is released by all the stars in the observable universe in a thousand years!
So, it's possible, but at this point in time, pretty darned unlikely.
2007-04-06 14:11:37 · answer #2 · answered by Argon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is believed that nothing can cross the barrier of the speed of light. So we might get close to traveling at that speed if we invent something to keep the speed from killing us. And maybe we might be smart enough to escape our planet when destruction comes so we don't end up extinct like dinosaurs.
And have you read The Time Machine by H. G. Wells? The author gives a fantastic description of what the future might be like although the story is entirely fictional.
Maybe the future will be the way he imagines it at that time, not what people imagine today.
2007-04-06 14:09:09 · answer #3 · answered by aximili12hp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is really a statement followed by 3 different questions.
Who can say what will happen in a few hundred years? Just think how impossible electronics would have been to Columbus or Galileo.
Ultimately, we and the whole universe are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.
Many people fear we will kill ourselves with war or pollution. I don't think so. I think we will voluntarily genetically engineer ourselves into another species. It will start something like the movie Gatacca showed. In some ways, it is already starting.
2007-04-06 14:15:35 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are destined to be doomed but not like the dinosaurs.
The dinosaurs were doomed by a statistic,they could have gone on for hundred of millions of years more.
Men are doomed by themselves,by their technology.
The speed of light is can not be violated,it is an incident.
The first space-time pulse that came into existence was the minimum span of time that can exist.
the speed of light is an incident to try to increase it's speed would trying to force it to exist for a length of time that cannot exist.
2007-04-07 03:27:42 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cant travel faster than light if you cant travel at lightspeeds.
Perhaps the only way to acheive flight of extreme velocity will come to out future generations.
We as a human race need not to develop more complication with our lives, instead we need to perfect the ones we already live with.
2007-04-06 14:06:52 · answer #6 · answered by Romeo C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you can bend space there is no need to travel light speed because you are instantly there instead of traveling a finite speed and waisting time lol
HAHA humanity always in a rush!
2007-04-06 17:41:58 · answer #7 · answered by Joseph W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋