Robert Lawson's Theory on Faster Than Light Travel

Just a quick idea on how we can beat the universal speed limit. No calculations or theorems yet.

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[matteo4m]

@lawsonrw You're on the right track. Keep it up. You enlightened me. 'Reducing' mass is a stellar idea!

[lawsonrw]

@matteo4m thank you

[sixstanger00]

Regarding Einsten's E=mc2, can anyone tell me what is significant about squaring LS? What does LS squared have to do with calculating the energy contained in an object? Like a rock? Or a jar? Or a keyboard? Or a moon? I've been reading that it's a conversion factor. CONVERTING WHAT? That's what I can't get anyone to explain. WHY is the mass of an object multiplied by the speed of light squared in the equation? And how does light work as a conversion factor for mass into energy?

[lawsonrw]

@sixstanger00 when combining two protons they release mass as energy. Two individual protons have more mass than a pair of combined protons. The energy released is pretty much equaly to what you find in e=mc^2... in case you were wondering, the units of energy involved are joules.

[lawsonrw]

@joshafool

That's not accurate... Time 'slows' when objects are moving at higher speeds. SEE: Hafele-Keating Experiment

Also see:

Time Dilation

[MrFrankconners]

@RolleRRATM Interesting Well, consider this. Particles are, in there own frame of reference, always at rest. Also note that it has been shown that when a particle that normally decays in millionths of a second, last much longer when they are accelerated close to the speed of light in particle accelerators. It's because time is passing slower for them than it normally would due to their speed. It can't be the speed of the particles themselves because there always at rest. It's time that changes.

[lawsonrw]

@WakeUpInDaMorning bear in mind that if other universes exist, though they may all have different rules of physics, we could consider most of those universes as "average" to the extent that they interact with each other. Its a bigger chance that this universe falls somewhere in that band of "average" and so if tachyon particles are jumping to other universes, so too they "jump" here and have similar effects to what you described. By that definition, we should be able to observe them.

[lawsonrw]

@WakeUpInDaMorning to be honest I hadn't though of any relationship involving tachyons. I think, if anything, if this effect were real it would in a way "pull" itself forward through time using tachyons. I'm a follower of string theory and so the tachyons, if anything would create instabilities in space-time surrounding the vehicle, allowing it to behave "imaginarily" outside of spacetime. Ultimately resolving in the new location (achieved, linearly, via FTL movement).

[macfrankist]

Very good perspective. There are details that may need revision, but you have great reasoning my friend.

[lawsonrw]

@superdahoho

Most professionals will say that photons do not have mass but they do have momentum... but the formula for momentum = p = mass * velocity.

We know from multiplication rules that if p = 0 * C then p = 0, so its really quite difficult to explain photons as having momentum while having no mass. To correct for this, scientists came up with some rather interesting alternative ways of calculating the momentum of photons.

[superdahoho]

so do photons have mass or no?

8:40 "even photons have mass"

I heard from several sources that they don't, even my professor said no

but I also heard from other sources that they do....anyone have a definite answer?

[sixstanger00]

@lawsonrw The one GOING to summer camp would have aged only a few years or months from HIS perspective, but the kid who stayed behind would have aged 50 years plus the time spent at the camp.

If the object is travelling at LS, time would have "paused" for the kid in the ship. From his point, the trip would prob seem instantaneous. 50 years to get there and back is an observation OUTSIDE the ship, from someone sitting still.