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Author: Steven L.Steven L. Date: Aug 12, 2008 20:56
Traveling Faster Than the Speed of Light: Two Baylor Physicists Have a
New Idea That Could Make It Happen
Aug. 11, 2008
by Matt Pene
Two Baylor University scientists have come up with a new method to cause
a spaceship to effectively travel faster than the speed of light,
without breaking the laws of physics.
Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and
Richard Obousy, a Baylor graduate student, theorize that by manipulating
the extra spatial dimensions of string theory around a spaceship with an
extremely large amount of energy, it would create a "bubble" that could
cause the ship to travel faster than the speed of light. To create this
bubble, the Baylor physicists believe manipulating the 10th spatial
dimension would alter the dark energy in three large spatial dimensions:
height, width and length. Cleaver said positive dark energy is currently
responsible for speeding up the expansion rate of our universe as time
moves on, just like it did after the Big Bang, when the universe
expanded much faster than the speed of light for a very brief time.
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Author: Wickeddoll®Wickeddoll® Date: Aug 12, 2008 21:38
"Steven L." ...
> Traveling Faster Than the Speed of Light: Two Baylor Physicists Have a New
> Idea That Could Make It Happen
> Aug. 11, 2008
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> by Matt Pene
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> Two Baylor University scientists have come up with a new method to cause a
> spaceship to effectively travel faster than the speed of light, without
> breaking the laws of physics.
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> Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Richard
> Obousy, a Baylor graduate student, theorize that by manipulating the extra
> spatial dimensions of string theory around a spaceship with an extremely
> large amount of energy, it would create a "bubble" that could cause the
> ship to travel faster than the speed of light. To create this bubble, the
> Baylor physicists believe manipulating the 10th spatial dimension would
> alter the dark energy in three large spatial dimensions: height, width and
> length. Cleaver said positive dark energy is currently responsible for
> speeding up the expansion rate of our universe as time moves on, just like ...
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Author: RicRic Date: Aug 13, 2008 03:47
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Author: ToolPackinMamaToolPackinMama Date: Aug 13, 2008 08:18
Ric wrote:
> Get to work on the inertia dampening field so passengers don't turn into a
> pink stain on the walls.
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>
If the ship doesn't actually move within the safety of the warp bubble,
then inertia shouldn't be a problem, except at "space normal" speeds.
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Author: Wickeddoll®Wickeddoll® Date: Aug 13, 2008 08:43
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Author: Martin Mose LarsenMartin Mose Larsen Date: Aug 13, 2008 12:40
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:47:42 -0400, "Ric" Way.com> wrote:
>> "Steven L." ...
>>> Traveling Faster Than the Speed of Light: Two Baylor Physicists...
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Author: ToolPackinMamaToolPackinMama Date: Aug 13, 2008 23:26
Wickeddoll® wrote:
> "Ric" ...
>> Get to work on the inertia dampening field so passengers don't turn into a
>> pink stain on the walls.
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> They mentioned that on the special, but said they had no idea of how that
> could be incorporated.
If the ship doesn't actually "move" when it is being moved along at warp
speed, then inertia is a non-issue... except at "space-normal"
(non-warp) speed.
Logically, it might be argued that travelling at warp speed is safer
than travelling at near-warp "space-normal" speeds. While "warping",
the shipand all contents (including passengers)would feel no sensations
which are associated with movement. A whole 'nother set of physics
would be involved.
They also shouldn't look out the window while warping. The "view" would
no doubt be visually incomprehensible and emotionally unsettling.
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Author: ToolPackinMamaToolPackinMama Date: Aug 13, 2008 23:49
Ric wrote:
> Get to work on the inertia dampening field so passengers don't turn into a
> pink stain on the walls.
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Author: ToolPackinMamaToolPackinMama Date: Aug 13, 2008 23:52
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Author: QuadiblocQuadibloc Date: Aug 14, 2008 05:22
On Aug 12, 9:56 pm, "Steven L." earthlink.net> wrote:
> "Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," said Cleaver, who co-authored
> the paper with Obousy about the new method. "The ship would be pushed by
> the spatial bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the
> speed of light."
Hmm. This sounds familiar.
> The method is based on the Alcubierre drive, which proposes expanding
> the fabric of space behind a ship and shrinking space-time in front of
> the ship. The ship would not actually move, rather the ship would sit in
> a bubble between the expanding and shrinking space-time dimensions.
Yes, that's what I had heard of.
So what is new here is the new proposed mechanism of making such a
bubble of space around the ship.
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