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  • lol nerds

  • The difference between the space shuttle seemingly impossible a century ago and FTL today is that the space shuttle was an enormous Engineering challenge, while FTL needs a break through in our understanding in Physics. FTL is much much more difficult.

  • "4 years"

    Or less than .0000001 from the people in the ships point of view.

  • CERN claims they have broken FTL on 9/22/2011 by making a neutrino go faster than light.

  • @nullifie it is fact that they have made it go faster. they tested the experiment near 30 000 times to confirm its validity!

  • also im sorry if this dropped into the personal sides, just giving my opinion and everyones counts not just one human being

  • I'VE WARNED YOU BEFORE - NO MORE PERSONAL ATTACKS, OR I'LL WIPE THIS WHOLE CHAT-THREAD AWAY.

    Please behave responsibly, from now on. I don't want to see any more "slagging off" type comments. Thank you.

  • Some interesting comments, but, hey folks, don't cross the line into personal attacks, eh, or I'll have to start wielding my BIG STICK and delete some comments. Or, because I really can't be bothered with modding, I might just set the video to "no comments allowed." Trouble is, that would wipe away ALL the comments.

  • Alcubierre is a sexy beast

  • A speed limit seems silly when you think about it

  • Saying FTL is impossible would just be rather silly. Better to say we don't know, because, well we don't. It might SEEM impossible given current understanding and technology, but imagine if you had described a modern jetliner or the Saturn V to the ancient romans, they would've said such machines were impossible, and they'd be right, given their understanding and technology.

    I don't think a civilization that has barely left it's own planet is fit to speak definitively on space travel.

  • @darkling9109 Jets and the Saturn V didn't break any laws of physics though.

  • @markuscc Like I said, I think we're as unfit to hypothesis on what a future civilization may or may not be able to do as ancient Roman scientists would be to have a discussion about aerodynamics, propulsion and aircraft design with Boeing or airbus's engineering departments.

  • @darkling9109 Ancient Romans didn't know about the laws of physics though. Even if we could ever travel at 99.99999 percent the speed of light we could never go anywhere and return to tell people about it. If we went at that speed for one year and came back the earth would have aged one million years and everybody would be dead.

  • @markuscc They didn't understand what we do now, but they were just as overly confident about their understanding as we are with ours. The truth is future generations may discover something we're completely missing, something that to them will seem as obvious and apparent as the planets orbiting the sun do to us, but didn't to past generations.

  • Good golly gosh! der sure is sum smart comments on dis here payge! Mayks myee wawnt to go bayuck to skool!!! Ah don't thiynk mama will keep me ayfter clayus anymore cuz I done gowt married to my cuzone sheldeen. Aym be spoken for!!

  • @PatrickRob82 lol

  • A gravitational force field is made up of two subfields. One is excursive which serves to repel other worlds and establish their orbital corridors, and gravity which serves to coalesce and unify matter towards a concentric point from whence it originates. I've named the excursive field the X-gravity factor. Both field accrue presure starting at the plane of the exosphere but in opposite directions. The force that's accrued is equal to .0735 lbs/sq/in. per mile of expansion.

  • Light doesn't travel as it's merely a reactive condition of matter that causes its spectral field to radiate when excited by black energy. Black energy is the highest frequencies of the energy spectrum that is congruent to all forms of ethereal energies such as electricity, magnetism, gamma rays and more. When my theory on gravity is generally accepted by those seeking to discover the codified ways of nature, then great progress will be made in many fields of science.

  • if it isnt possible to travel faster then light, how do black holes capture light then???

  • I don't think FTL is impossible, we've broken sound barrier, why can't do the same to light, its just a measure, you fast enough you'll break it

  • 16 years ago already.. Man I'm getting old fast!

  • The closer you get to the speed of light, the slower time seems, as speed is a constant and time is not. However, if you get REALLY close to the speed of light, time slows down alot and would feel like traveling faster than the speed of light.

  • Mathematics are never, and always wrong. Our equations for physics are far from complete, and there are a lot of things bending and changing our current views all the time. The relativity theory is incomplete and in need of serious update, there are forces of the universe it cannot explain. And then even if we cannot move with a speed higher than the speed of light, there are still these theories of "moving without speed" that can help us cheat on Einstein =)

  • The only this is possible is if you can establish a rotating magnetic field around the vessel creating it's own small gravitational pull. Simulating earth. It would cancel the out inertia and distort time around said vessel.

  • lets hope that we dont go extinct before we reach the stars.

  • Faster than light travel is not time travel. It's just a shorthand for people who are not willing to think about it for a few minutes. Since light is the fastest thing we know, then traveling faster than light means that you will get somewhere before everything else gets there and hence place you in those other things' past. But it would never be your past and would hence never be time travel, just an illusion.

  • @AsTimeDilates Excuse me, I meant that it would never be time travel into the past. Time travel into the future is easy, just move faster than the other people and things around you.

  • It is in the very long term important to find a way to go all over the Galaxy and mabye beyond as we have 500million to 1 billion years of water left on this Planet. after that the water will go due to the suns aging and we will go with it snufed otu of existence. For us now we will have nothign to worry about.

  • worst news report ever...

  • IT IS !!

  • not possible

  • s=vt....speed reaches infinity, time reaches 0...so, what if there is no concept of time beyond this universe...

  • When the sun expands humanity will have to leave Earth and colonize another Earth-type planet in order to survive.FTL, wormhole doesnt really matter 1 day if the technology exists we will travel along the stars.

    But how to move billions of people from Earth to another planet?The recured resorses woud be huge.

  • Uh oh nerds!

    Haha jk

  • shut up troll

  • im sorry you didnt get your fruit loops today go find some friends instead

  • @ForgottenWarriorsMW2 \

    They think for the human race you dumbass and you say they are jerks...

    Clean your mind and learn to think first before you do something stupid!!! :P

  • Faster than light travel would warp time around you, the faster you go the more time for you slows down. If you went to the edge of our solar system at speed of light and came back again, minutes might have passed for you but earth would possibly be days in the future. Going faster that light might not be the smartest way to travel because of the time dilation effect.

  • Ships may still travel Faster than light without disrupting subspace, existing in their own time frame. That is the wrap drive. It produces a bubble around the ship keeping everything as normal as the earth. That reminds me, we are the "Leonardo da Vinci" and the rudimentary interstellar ship may be 400 years away.

  • It sounds like you watch a lot of star trek. With everything Ive learned and everything I can conceive, I doubt that the star trek theory holds any water. Subspace is at this moment nothing but a theory but traveling in it doesnt sound like an option. I theorize that subspace is meant to be folded not traveled. Subspace is merely a space between dimensions.

  • @comodo24 you are right, but the Warp drive from star trek has some real science in it and some say that it can be achieved.

  • @selraith123 That maybe true but the way it’s explained in star trek is completely over exaggerated. A warp bubble as they explain is retarted. I learned of a theory explaining how they "might" be able bend space behind and in front of craft to propel it at high speed. Unfortunately there are H and He particles floating around in space, the faster you go the more you hit. Eventually causing a wall effect, like hitting water at high speed.

  • @comodo24 yes and the warping technologie if possible is several decades if not more ahead of us and if and when it is available all obstacles to that kind of speed will probably be foreseen and prevented

  • @selraith123 -pt.1- If u look at all the things that have been ritten about in the past, ex: the book 20k leagues under the sea, the concepts such as the sub or the chopper have all been talked about even tho there was little understandin of it...

  • @selraith123 -pt.2- …Warp travel may be a similar concept. 1 of my theories is that, from observations Ive made anythin we can conceive is theoreticaly posible. We as human beins constantly break bariers that seem imposibl. Unles of course the icecaps finish melting and we lose polar stability. Of course the poles have shifted before; we might not lose our atmosphere after all.

  • @comodo24 but if we suffer a polar shift and manage to survive we will probably will be sent back to stone age, we will be quite faster to rebuild and such but it'd still be a major setback on our technological evolution

  • @selraith123 we'll start to rebuild but it will be overwhelming for everyone. Many of who survive will probably kill themselves out of stress and depression. Come to think of it... this is starting to sound like a cheesy sci-fi original movie! Lol

  • I read that if you can travel at the speed of light, time stops all together? So, time can't go any slower than stop.

  • @razor71927 - sounds plausible to me.

  • You have to accelerate spacetime around the spaceship using an ultra compact particle accelerator based on deterium nuclei. It exploits Einstein's general and special theory of relativity along with the uncertainty principle.

    You have to know Gravity is a result of spacetime flow into the center of the Earth of which objects follow like a conveyor belt. Gravity is a manifestation of that and NOT a force within itself.

  • @rbolo29 ght. You are only partly right. You must warp the gravitational force in conjuntion with ultra violet cosmic radio waves eminating from the centre of a sub-dimentional vortex. When you do this you can get up to the speed of light and beyond.

  • i dont think that the planets are infact light years away i think that the measurment of the distances are obscured by the spreading and disipating and loss of light value at a great distance

  • ya okay that may be possible but i would like to see someone come up with a material that can handle the strain of faster then light travel

  • imagine, traveling 100,000 light years in 2 hours

  • Excuse my ignorance here, but if you were to travel FTL, wouldn't you just be travelling faster than your image?

    (ie: when travelling faster than sound - mass in one place, sound in another - hence if FTL, then mass in one place, image in another?)

    effectively become invisible!?

  • you are not moving faster than light you are bending the space-time, look 1:18

    its like if you teleport.

  • an FTL object w/o any aid from space warp etc you would see that object approaching and leaving at the same time, except that the approaching image is played backwards

  • You wouldn't become invisible, because you would still emit/reflect light, the image would just "lag" and not describe your position accurately. So the closer the observer would be, the smaller the distance between "you" and "your image". So to simply putting, you would be visible, but in the area you were some time ago, and that time depends on 1) your speed 2) the distance from the observer.

    BTW that is the basis for the famous "Picard manouver" from Star Trek.

  • Of course this is the case assuming that you travel FTL "the normal way", without bending or fracturing the space. Thich is impossible :)

  • depends, it wouldnt happen if the light was comming from inside the ship but outside of it maby, because in the ship, the light is alredy going at the speed of your ship, and also add lightspeed 2 that

  • lol that would be cool actually. Since your image is light viewed by your eyes and measured by your brain, if you go FTL than the illusion that youre invisible would occur.

  • she'd make a good escort

  • don't forget about tachyons the "imaginary particle" that has no speed limit. if they were found out to actually be real and we found a way to control/utilize them, we could be anywhere within the known universe within a second.

  • we are going to be long gone as a species before we get this kind of technology.

  • no dumbass

  • there must be a further evolution of mankind.

    the only way to keep existing and develop ourselves is to spread out into space....even if it sounds like science fiction , sooner or later it has to be done..

  • It won't even be necessary. Once we come to the point where we can download our minds into machines, there will never be a need for expansion ever again. Digital information is infinitely cheaper than physical resources.

  • Ok, but when we come to that point , what makes us human then?

    in 4 billion years the sun stopps "shining" and if we havent colonies in other solar systems than our by that time, we will stopp existing. its simple...

  • Some people say we WON'T be human then, we'll be at a next step up the evolutionary ladder. Of course, eugenics or natural selection would have to have full reign to achieve that... both of which aren't politically acceptable right now!

  • in 4 billion years i'm sure we can find a way to replace our sun(making one out of Jupiter for ex)...the issue is that i dont think we wanna stay in this solar system forever.

    unfortunately i wont live to see warp/slip stream/wormhole travel...my gut tells me its possible that at least one can exist :D

  • @HawklordPXR5 your right lol no one in this day and age really cares or understands how the universe works or how big it is or how old it is. people need to Comprehend that humans as a species is so insignificant compared to other possible life and civilizations that might have reigned or still lives on right now. this planets population could achieve so much if we all stand together and pool our resources. we could be like in the movies with warps and hyperspace if we think as a unified world..

  • @DonEddy89 in 4 bilion years if we still exist we will resemble nothing of todays humans 600 milion years ago not even mamals existed ..so in 4 billion years ? i can not even imagine

  • @DonEddy89 well obviously you dont have a firm grasp on how LONG 4 BILLION years is lol. humans haven't been around for that long. earliest humanlike remains in fossils is about 500,000 Five Hundred Thousand years old. so in 4 BILLION years i really dont think humans will be the same or even around. the whole UNIVERSE is about 14 BILLION years old so you tell me we have been here 500,000 years and have only grasped what space is and time. dont be stupid man we will all be gone when the sun dies.

  • @WooZIE997 Well, perhaps you're right...

  • @DonEddy89 The sad reality though is that we will likely have destroyed our planet long before we have the technology to do that. The only real way we would ever survive long enough would be if we completely abolished all religion. What happens when we have some new super virus or bomb and some religious whacko gets a hold of it? There are far too many things that can wipe us out completely for us to survive long enough to come up with that sort of technology to leave here.

  • @markuscc well i dont think abolishing religions solves anything, im a devote christian, but i think learning tolerance for all religions and people is the key, you cant just think all religion zealots are whacko's :/, i mean if you believe in the "Big Bang" you probaly think are religions dont make sense, but you fail to relize that we think the exact same about some "big bang" theory????

  • @pieman7771 The major difference though, is that the big bang theory has mountains of evidence supporting it, and religion has mountains of evidence disproving it.

  • @markuscc not really, "all a sudden a big bang happen and all these things came tumbling out" that doesnt make sense!!! im not sure if you believe in a god or gods, but people must understand there is something out there that did all this not some random "big bang" im not sure hpw scientists find these things as in, an ice age how do they know that they werent alive nor did anyone record it, continental shift thats just wierd, i can believe expanding by volcano, but moving continents is strange

  • @pieman7771 If that is what you think scientists think then you are sadly uneducated, which I guess you have to be to believe what you do. You should really look into reading a few books and seeing what this whole "science thing" is all about instead of blindly believing in what somebody else tells you without any proof whatsoever.

    I'll take education over ignorance any day.

  • @markuscc well i might b as educated as your scientists, but i know something called "Tolerance" and im sure you know this word but you dont have the trait in your head, it mean having respect for others choices in belief, an before you say im not being tolerable towards y'alls belief,an the reason behind this is because if someone gonna attack my belief nan say im uneducated for believing in a god, of course im gonna attack yours

  • @markuscc also reason why you say a hundred times "theres no proof behind it" is because god isnt physical he isnt something you can look up into the stars or in a microscope to find proof of, he is in a spiratual world, and the only proof we need is the his works through history, take Padre Peo for example he bleeds in the spots jesus was nailed and stabbed, and the apparitions of virgin mary where they searched everywhere and found no film or projectors, and you couldnt find out

  • @pieman7771 Do you also believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy? You may not need proof that he exists but what about the ridiculous amount of proof that he doesn't exist? What about how almost every single page of the bible has been proven wrong by science? Are you really that ignorant?

    Please don't blindly follow this nonsense for your entire life. Life is too short, at least read some science books to get both sides of the spectrum.

  • @markusccwell first of all santa and tooth fairy are also PHYSICAL not spiritual like god they can be proven to not and they never existed and now im sure u have no tolerance whatsoever for other peoples choices, an life may be short but my life in the kingdom of god (if i go there) will be eternity, now please shush up, because if you cant respect my choices than you can be sure as hell im never gonna respect you, so im done with this because you cant talk to

  • @pieman7771 Good, maybe now that you are done you can spend some time reading a few books. I suggest starting with a good book on evolution or maybe some Richard Dawkins books. After that, then come back and have a real conversation with me if you want. One based on reality and not blind assumptions.

  • @markuscc what you call assumptions, i call the real world not run by corrupt people, n mabye when you learn some tolerance for other peoples beliefs, me and you could have a nice conversations from both sides :p, i try not to be rude, but please try to listen to others opinions and respect them besides say theyre uneducated, dumb, believe in blind assumptions, and ignorant, because the man who cant respect anothers choices is just as ignorant as the accusation

  • @pieman7771 I'm sorry but I only have so much patience for ignorance. It's like trying to explain algebra to a lamp. I would also hardly call highly educated scientists who are publishing studies based on their entire life's work the corrupt ones. What I would call corrupt is the vast majority of religions who have tried to suppress knowledge for hundreds of years in an attempt to keep the money flowing in.

    Free your mind, read a book, one with facts in it.

  • @markusccwell and what are you saying "look at both sides of the spectrum" obviously you dont even look into are sides of these things you just read on things that try to prove that god doesnt exist, and ive seen your side because everyone has, like ive been trying to tell you theres nothing you can use to prove he doesnt exist, you cant use microscopes, look into space, thermal scopes, heat sensors, he is SPIRITUAL he doesnt leave a trace since he isnt of the physical world, so im done with you

  • @pieman7771 I don't read about things that try to prove that god doesn't exist, I read about scientific theories that explain where we came from and who we are. They just happen to offer a better explanation (with ridiculous amounts of proof to back it up) unlike your version of reality that comes to its conclusions by ignoring that ridiculous amount of proof.

    I don't need to prove he doesn't exist, you need to prove that he does and stop blindly believing everything people say without proof.

  • @markuscc alright good for you, your so smart, i dont care :/, like i said a hundred times which i think you dont seem to understand is, people have there own will and ill believe what i want to believe, and you can to, now please lets stop this arguement because im really getting tired of argueing with someone who says to look into the other side of the story and doesnt look into the other side himself, so please lets stop this since you also seem to have no TOLERANCE levels in you

  • @pieman7771 Hey, if you want to believe there is a magical leprechaun who lives inside your toilet that takes your poo away just because you don't know how a toilet works then go ahead, but it doesn't make you any less ignorant. If you choose to base your entire belief system on ignorance then go ahead, but that also doesn't make you any less ignorant.

    Why not educate yourself and make your own decisions based on facts instead of blindly believing what some guy tells you on sunday afternoon.

  • @pieman7771 The difference though, is that I believe what I believe because of all of the scientific proof that backs up those beliefs. You believe what you believe based on your ignorance of all of that proof.

    Do you really not see the difference?

  • @markuscc and so the arguement between me an a intolerant man continues :/, an dont you see you probally just skim through my comment and blindy skip parts without seeing my side of the story

  • @pieman7771 The ignorant and the intolerant of the ignorant, best friends forever. You don't have a side of the story, you are just blindly believing somebody else's story with both no proof, and a ridiculous amount of proof against it.

  • @markuscc OMFG ive about had it with you there proof behind our story you have obviously just tooken one side and not even considered OTHERS SIDE OF THE STORY have you even listened to others proof, "just read a book", "your ignorant and uneducated", "you have no facts" well how do you know your not even letting me say anything!!!, and your calling basically 3 2/4- 3 3/4 of the worlds population stupid

  • @pieman7771 You aren't presenting any proof, just ignoring it. Go ahead and give me your side of the story, and I don't mean "well this is what some guy at church tells me is real so I will believe him no matter how absolutely ridiculous it sounds".

    You might also want to work on your math skills. Three and a half to three and three quarters of the worlds population? Three and a half what? Percent?

    And don't forget, half of the worlds population has below average intelligence.

  • @pieman7771 All I'm trying to say is, believe what you want, but at least educate yourself on the subject, don't blindly believe something just because somebody says it is so.

  • @markuscc i understand what you mean i can accept some things that scientists say but others that scientists say i just cant accept, and the church gives proofs that make more sense to me, its not what you say "blindy saying things" because there is historical proof of gods works, now lets end this please while we both accept our choices, cause you heard the uploader, no more personal attacks

  • einstein's calculatiuon can be summed up simply . the improved law for adding up two velocities v1and v2 is not v =(v1+v2 ) but rather v=(v1 =v2 ) divided by ( 1+v1v2/c2 ) where c is speed of light . because c is so big , 300,000 kilometers a second for everyday velocities like 10 miles per hour and 30 miles per hour the number you divide by is indistinguishable from 1 ;the v1v2/c bit is virtually 0 , but if you make one of the velocities ,v1 or v2 ( or even both of them ), equal to c

  • Let's say man goes faster than the speedd of light. A ship is created for this travel as well. Then someone gets in it and travels to the known edge of the Universe. What happens then?

    This question is open for discussion. Please be respectful.

  • I agree with you. Even if we could travel through wormholes, how do we know where to search for life? And let alone intelligent life! And if the theory that there are different dimensions in space and time is true, then how do we look for life if we are not technologically or biologically capable of seeing it? It seems so difficult.

  • If you think with an open mind, you can consider this: wouldn't the first requisite to travel in space be to open our awareness to other dimensions? I'm not talking about occultist hocus pocus here. I'm seriously speaking about the possibility that these "magical" abilities described by metaphysics and religion are, for real, advanced perceptions of a fully developed brain, a genetic trait. Perhaps these abilities can be accomplished by doing special research, or by modifying our genes.

  • The point is, if we can percieve other dimensions, then the whole wormhole thing gets more real, because we can actually see other types of life, and we can even do research on another form of energy in another dimension or alternate physical laws capable of taking us to outer space. I don't know, that's just my thoughts.

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  • Most of these physicists don't understand Einstein's theories.

    In fact the distance one can travel d in a given amount of time t with velocity v is given by

    d=(vt)/Sqrt(1-(v^2)/(c^2)), where c is the speed of light. So,if you do a little algebra, you find that the velocity one needs to travel at in order to go a distance d in one second is

    v=dc/Sqrt(d^2+c^2).

    Note that v is ALWAYS LESS THAN c no matter what value of d is chosen, even if d is ten billion light years.

  • not everyone can understand your math bro

  • What a load off boloney. They know nothing. lol

  • load of* boloney.

  • light is the fastst visible thing

    ps why is the universe black

  • there`s not enough matter in this vast, expanding universe to light it up. even if all matter were transformed into radiation (light is a form of radiation), it would hardly be noticeable. -john barrow `the infinite book`

  • thx

  • if you travel near the speed of light your ship will be heavier and also will shink

  • u dont shrink lol, u only lose length in the direction your moving in, so you would shrink if you were in a...say elevator moving up at close to c.

    and ye ur mass would dialate (get bigger), and your time will dialate as well (get longer) thus it will take longer for u to age.

    this explains why you cant go faster than c. because if you travelled at c, you would have an infinite mass, your length would be 0 (its like being invisible) and your time would stop.

  • What if there is not a "speed limit" of the universe?What if light isn't the fastest thing the the universe.Just because mathematics proves it does not make it possible.For instance math says i can't walk to a door. Because if the door is 10 feet away I must first walk 5, then 2.5, then 1.25, ext. It will never reach zero, yet i can to the door. I am just saying that maybe we should not necessarily look for some hyperspace technique and just fusion technology or something else.

  • @GeneralBerger it's true that math cannot prove everything, but math simply says that you must cross an infinite amount of points in space to reach the door, not that it cant be done.

  • @GeneralBerger the speed of light IS the limit because of the mass of it's carrier particle (the photon), it is, normally, absolute zero, and that's what makes it go to 299 thousand kilometers per second, that number wouldnt be so constant if it wasnt the "cosmic speed limit"

  • @selraith123 yea, the only way i could see us accelerating beyond the speed of light is if somehow you could manipulate mass (brings mass effect to mind). It would be nice if some phenomena allowed for this to occur, but until then its only through the manipulation of space-time we could reach a destination faster than light

  • @skyler114 well i dont know about manipulating mass but one of the ways is to manipulate space itself. as einstein predicted space is a maleable substance and can be streched or contracted, and that's the principle of a fictional "warp drive" that it is not ruled out as a possible mean to reach ftl.

  • @selraith123 in my prior comment i had actually addressed that

    i was only saying that if we wanted to travel faster than light as opposed to reach a destination through the bending of spacetime, then that would be the only way to travel faster than light.

    Of course if we can get alcubbiere drives or any other promising means of manipulating that would be just great.

  • @skyler114

    i had an idear that you could use gravity waves to warp the spacetime infront of you and behind you because gravity can effect space and time e.g black holes its a long shot because you would have to recreate the biggest explosios in the universe to create the waves. i had this idear after watching a tv program about stars exploding and producing garvity waves, that are streching and compressing the earth.

    only and idear...

  • @GeneralBerger Darkness is faster than light, Black hole for example - light cant escape it, so doesn't that make darkness faster...

  • @GeneralBerger The problem with traveling FTL is that at those high speeds the amount of energy necessary to accelerate further increases drastically. As you approach the speed of light, you would need an infinite amount of energy to reach the speed of light. That's not to say that it's impossible to reach a destination in less time than it takes for light. But instead you would need to manipulate the geometry of space, so instead of traveling through space, space would 'move around you'.

  • @GeneralBerger of course you never reach zero when walking to a door, the point is not to reach zero because one of the laws of physics and common sense tells you that two physical objects cannot occupy the same space. the point is to walk next to it and open it at a certain range thus not reaching zero and proving that you are wrong.

    Dont take this as a destructive comment because that is not my point.

  • @GeneralBerger what if there's speed of chuck norris (faster than speed of light)

  • @GeneralBerger we don't subdivide our steps, so it'll be more like, 10 ft away, 8 feet away, 6 feet away, 4, 2, 0, everything in nature is allways in chunks, (well, radiation is a bit of an acception, but evens that is limited to the size of the atom).

  • @GeneralBerger That isn't true what you are saying about the door.. You are using the famous dialectict of Zeno Of Elea, (you know the story about Achilles and the tortoise) whenever Achilles reaches somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has farther to go. Therefore, because there are an infinite number of points Achilles must reach where the tortoise has already been, he can never overtake the tortoise. This is an incorrect paradox.

    So we must look at Math and not at what you are saying.

  • @GeneralBerger

    Damn....that comment made me think for a bit.....

  • @GeneralBerger You're describing an exponential curve with a vertical asymptote at the location of the door, with distance on the x-axis and time on the y-axis. This doesn't work because you're velocity is constant. Next time you fall asleep in class make sure you're not holding your pencil, you could stab yourself in the eye.

  • @GeneralBerger - Except light speed is the speed limit of the universe. Your example with the door is not logically, or even mathematically, sound. Try doing some research and think about your explanation. It's all more complicated than just going faster. Time slows the faster you move, it's been measured.

  • @danielodors Wrong, my friend. this phenomena only implies to a body accelerating to the speed of light.  A massless body whose starting speed was faster than light, like c^2, will not be slowed down by the illusion, time. I AM 13 YEARS OLD!LOL!

  • @assekhon1887able @larrypage @sergeybrin WHO TOLD YOU FASTER-THAN-LIGHT LONG BEFORE CERN VERIFIED IT RIGHT? Nikola Tesla. -Biblical Prophet

  • @GeneralBerger Nikola Tesla made earthquakes and YOU are going to hell. -Biblical Prophet

  • guys look up nikola teslas work. he sent energy faster than light through the earth,he sent energy and communication 1.5 times faster. i put up information on it as well, tesla proved scientifically that energy transfer can go faster than light, which also means spacecraft and communication can be made instant, no worm holes, no time travel, just instantaneousity !! please look up teslas work, wardenclyffe tower, colorado springs reseach tesla coil

  • it will happen one day....for some other race on another planet, as for us, we'll just end up killing ourselves.lol.

  • Well the Albercuile (spelled wrong) metric has some problems, it requires negative energy and exotic matter, therefore in order to create such a "warp bubble" in spacetime, one would need such currently unattainable "stuff"

  • Maby if the object somehow had no mass there is an extra element in the universe I just dont know what.Such as going trough a wormhole or something.

  • If you use takeons then the warp drive may be possible.

  • yes but their exsistence isn't proofed. And how would you use them if they have no energy stored?

  • That's just something man will have to figure out once we get advanced enough to take them off of a piece of paper.

  • you can't 'use' tachyons, as they cannot carry information

  • LOL, theoretical physics always cracks me up.

  • In the future humans will live over the age of 1000. And there will be technology or portals that will make u travel over the speed of light by decreasing ur mass to infinite and then restoring ur mass once u get to ur destination.. But it would be pretty long before that gets here ^-^

  • Mass effect XD.

  • travel may be possible with some form of quantum intanglement..... - currently they dont know how to send info with it but anything is semi possible :P

  • If you go faster than light, your mass becomes infinite.

    IMPOSSIBLEOLOLOLOL.

  • Your right ;)

  • The idea here is "bypassing" light-speed. You do not move 'faster' than light, but you would reach your destination before a ray of light would.

  • No one is assuming we can "ride a beam of light", but the goal here is to "travel at speeds equal or greater than the speed of light" -- huge difference.

    Are you a believer [in god]? If so, you need not worry about this world, as according the the judeo-christian, hebrew bibles and qur'an, the world is going to end (and heaven is home).

    If you're not a believer, then logic would tell you that this world, at some point, won't sustain life -- hence the need for interstellar exploration.

  • My bet is on Logic

  • Your'e so right! Imagine....thinking that this one day may be possible. Next, they'll try and tell us they can link the world us with some invisible 'web'. I'm going back under my rock.

  • things can go faster than light under certain gasses

  • Yes. Electrons in Nuclear Powerplants travel faster than light all the time.

  • These nuclear power plants are submerged in water to aid in the shielding of radiation. The electrons are only moving faster than the relative speed of light in water... which is much slower than the speed of light in a vacuum. This results in cherenkov radiation, and the the characteristic "blue glow" of these pool type fission reactors.

  • umm no they cant

  • Only because the speed of light is slower when traveling through these gasses, girlsdrinkfeck. Things can go faster than the speed light is moving in the gas, but not faster than the speed limit of the universe, which is the speed of light in a vacuum.

  • let say you have a 10 yrs old kid here on earth and you are 30 yrs old and go in space and travel 350 light yrs at speed of light and back to earth but when you come back you will be 34yrs old and your kid will be 60 yrs old cos your body ages slow down at speed of lights

  • That's why in say, Star Trek TNG, the ship travels through a warp field, like a bubble of reality to protect it from the effects of travelling at the speed of light and higher.

  • I'm sure it's possible. Spacetime is warped all the time, every atom, person, planet, star warps space to varying degrees. We need to figure out a source of energy that can create very very dense objects in a very smal space.

  • 1.32 the starship Enterprise is not from a BBC series but is a property of Paramount Picture sunder Viacom.

  • create a corridor of mass free space somehow and there you go no laws of physics,no speed limit etc etc lol

  • Is space travel via unconventional method possible?

    Sure it is! Formation of new stars in a galaxy is the proof. It is a wrong conception that new stars are born out of supernova explosions because all the hydrogen needed for the new star is already consumed and converted by the exploding star. Fresh hydrogen was transported to this place from black hole to form a new star via unconventional transportation method. One of those gateways is as close as our sun...

  • There is only one question in my mind -- Are these gateways permanent or they appear randomly anywhere in space within a galaxy? Obviously Space has two types of properties. One is observable by normal methods such as the distance and the others are not so obvious such as the flexibility of Space itself. There is need for Space to have these properties. A normal Space must have wide enough spaces between the object to have a stable and life supporting universe govern by normal laws of physics.

  • And yet it must be flexible enough to allow transportation of materials through it to form new stars all over the galaxy. As you already know that there is always an interaction between matter and Space which is demonstrated in any matter under rotation and is observable in a Gyroscope in rotation. These lines of force which is Space it self can be bent by rotating matter on its axis.

  • The truth value of your beliefs is questionable. Yes, you may challenge science and do all your own explanations which you can't prove and because you are just ignorant of the scientific proof, but you can't convince people just by being a spiritual example.

  • the ftl travel seems possible by somehow making a corridor of virtually mass free space and then being prepelled through the corridor at light speed because remeber mass does have a big role in the speed that objects can go so no mass=actually almost instantaneous travel

  • I read some of Hawking's work discussing worm holes. He said that using them for FTL travel would most likely be impossible because the forces within the hole would destroy any information sent through it.

  • I thought that's what he said about black holes...