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I don't understand the physics but people like Steven Hawking have proposed that if you have access to a super heavy object like a black hole then you can travel back in time to the limit of the existence of the object; assuming that you can survive getting as close to a black hole as you need to get to utilize the time travel effect of the rotating black hole. Currently, we don't have the technology to survive being that close. Personally, I hate time travel and paradoxes. I always thought the universe would conspire to make time travel impossible because it would mess so many things up. So far my theory is right.
No one has tried to travel in time, or even tried to build any equipment that would make that possible; at least no one that has been taken seriously. So far no one has traveled in time, or if they did they changed the time line enough that we don’t know hat they traveled in time. The time space continuum may not want time travel to be possible so it could insure that anyone who succeeded would change history enough that it would have made their time travel impossible. Or if the person tired to make a change in history then the universe might conspire to not let that happen. We won’t know until someone tries. The simple fact that no on has told us they have been successful tells me that the universe may not be so friendly to time travel.
There are three forms of atomic transportation; an engine, a bomb, and transporter technology.
The atomic space engine has been designed and tested, but it is much too radioactive to use. The way a rocket engine works is by tossing mass out the bottom. When you do that you move forward thanks to Newton's Law for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. By burning the fuel you create more energy making a stronger reaction.
A nuclear power plant could run a spaceship by either powering its drive or by throwing radiation out the rear. That would have a slow acceleration, but the radiation would be constant and it would provide a continual acceleration. It would also be dangerous to anyone in space anywhere near that engine. So it has never been used.
Most space probes use solar power, but when you go out beyond Mars the amount of solar energy you can get is minor. All those spacecraft have used nuclear thermal reactors for power. The reactor has a radioactive material inside that creates a lot of heat. When two dissimilar metals are subjected to heat an electrical current flows. These reactors are not that strong; say a few kilowatts. But they are strong enough to power probes like Voyager, New Horizons, and Galileo. The radiation is so dangerous though that the probe has to put the power source at the end of a long boom so it won’t hurt the spacecraft. No human goes any where near the power source once it is installed and there are no plans to land one of these space probes where it could destroy life.
The movie Impact used the second type of nuclear power source. They had a long space ship with a huge metal plate at one end. They would throw a nuclear bomb out the rear of the space craft, behind the huge metal plate and explode the bomb. The resulting explosion would push the space ship forward and the huge metal plate would absorb enough of the radiation that the crew could survive. This was proposed to be a great use for unused nuclear explosives, except that they would have to be taken into space. No nation wants someone to orbit a nuclear bomb, it is too easy to drop it. So that engine has never left the drawing table. They also never answered the problem of what that huge jolt of thrust would do to the crew.
The final method of atomic transportation is the teleportation devices on Star Trek. The US Army did a study that said it was a nice idea, but very impracticable with modern technology.
The transporter scans the person down to the subatomic level which is a huge amount of data. I can put a jpeg image or a simple photo on a 100 kilobyte memory card. If I did the image in 3D on the computer then it would require several megabytes, if I animated that image then it would take a few gigabytes of memory. The human body is 3D, animated, and very complex. To store the information that the Star Trek transporters read you would need billions of terabytes of memory; and even that might not be enough. Then a beam of energy destroys the subject being teleported and sends them and some of their particles along a beam of energy to reassemble elsewhere. This would require a huge amount of energy and the reassembly process would be horribly complex. According to Star Trek we solve the problem in a few hundred years. I think it may take a lot longer than that, if ever.
Atomic transportation is currently not a good idea unless you use a thermal reactor for an unmanned space probe. In that case the power source is very compact, has no moving parts and incredibly dangerous to any life forms so it is limited to use in outer space.
Part of the transporter is something called the Heisenberg Compensator, a component that is required to read anything on the quantum level; since according to the Heisenberg Theory the mere act of observing something on the quantum level changes that item. The scale is so small that even with subatomic tools the mere use of those tools will effect what is being observed. The idea is that a transporter needs to scan a person down to the quantum level and to make sure there are no changes that scanning process needs to account for the Heisenberg Theory. If you do that then you generate so much information that it would take a month for a modern super computer to process it. This alone makes transporter technology impossible, for now.
2007-08-09 19:32:59
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answered by Dan S 7
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Rail is the main secure mode of transportation. you're saying "with all the derailments that take place" as though it is something that occurs daily. Derailments are incredibly uncommon, or maybe while they do take place, it always would not reason any injuries. particular, as quickly as in an extremely long whilst a passenger practice derails and motives some injuries or maybe deaths, and as quickly as in an prolonged whilst a freight practice donning risky products will derail and spill oil on the floor or start up a hearth. yet that is not any longer something while in comparison with the on a regular basis injuries that happen on the roads. If something, autos as a technique of transportation ought to be ended quickly. Trains injure the stupid people who stand on tracks or force by way of railway crossings while the practice is coming lots probably than the folk or products who're actually on the practice.
2016-10-09 21:59:40
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answered by Anonymous
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♣ al-Base is one of the most known agencies working hard to return us all back to 7th century in atomic state;
2007-08-09 23:29:04
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answered by Anonymous
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