Man "invents" hyperspace (warp) engine - US gov't interested

[lasermp5]

I've always wondered if human race is the most advanced or if there are other spicies that have done all we are attempting.

Ever see "Contact".

 

[BoOsTiN]

weeeeee...

dude! that movie is great!
Whats the name of it ????

 

[Nutari]

dude! that movie is great!
Whats the name of it ????

Flight of the Navigator

 

[anarchistchiken]

Wow I love the Mazda forums science club picking apart this theory (jerkit)

That would be ridiculously sweet if it works.

 

[POSEIDON]

I'm so confused at how this could be possible.

Exponential thrust by introducing an electric magnetic field being polarized by a solid magnet (the ship)

Seems logical. The only thing I don't understand is how they plan on stopping it. They can accelerate forever as long as the have the juice to power the electromagnet, but stopping seems to be a grey area.

 

[Nutari]

Exponential thrust by introducing an electric magnetic field being polarized by a solid magnet (the ship)

Seems logical. The only thing I don't understand is how they plan on stopping it. They can accelerate forever as long as the have the juice to power the electromagnet, but stopping seems to be a grey area.

fire the magnet in the opposite direction?

 

[slayer4u]

Push it to warp 100,000,000

 

[Turd Ferguson]

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[Roywhitep5]

so they're using the babylon5 type of space travel rather than the star trek type.... intresting...

i hope an event horizon type thing dosent happen

 

[Brad]

Compliant!

 

[Dimitrios]

so they're using the babylon5 type of space travel rather than the star trek type.... intresting...

i hope an event horizon type thing dosent happen

Yeah, black holes suck....a lot.....

 

[POSEIDON]

fire the magnet in the opposite direction?

Pretty much, the way I've seen it they use the ship as one end of the magnet and fire the electromagnetic field behind them. But "turning it off" doesn't stop it, how do they plan on stopping all the outrageous momentum? Certainly isn't a magnetic e-brake.

 

[terbow]

Pretty much, the way I've seen it they use the ship as one end of the magnet and fire the electromagnetic field behind them. But "turning it off" doesn't stop it, how do they plan on stopping all the outrageous momentum? Certainly isn't a magnetic e-brake.

cause if thre was a magnet e brake u could get some pretty schweet drifting up there.

science. how bout it. thats a cool concept.

 

[POSEIDON]

at least you couldn't hit a guard rail in space.

mega sic star trek doriftos

I mean what are you going to hit? Gene Roddenberry's casket?

 

[bazooka joe]

we can use a flux capacitor to stop it!

 

[65racecoupe]

Waste of money.

 

[Rainman]

I'm sure relativity is involved at some aspect, where light is "slower" relative to the motion.

And yeah, I'm not sure what the physical setup would be to create that magnetic field; I'd be curious to see what the net effect of (if) eventually thousands of crafts using such a setup would have on other bodies in space (especially smaller ones like asteroids and comets that may be more succeptible to gravitational pull changes than a planet or *duh* a star).

Can you imagine this ship flying by an asteroid belt and then having all the asteroids sucked out of the belt into its wake after it passes? LOL In fact, if the gravitational pull were strong enough, smaller objects would be attracted to it from all sides, including the direction in which it was travelling. How about sucking some asteroid into the ship head-on?

Still, a pretty cool idea. I imagine that stopping is not as hard as you might think as you might achieve the directional control (i.e. braking) simply by reversing polarity of the magnetic field.

R

 

[cable43]

I'm trying to get a GB going .. who's in

 

[jersey_emt]

Can you imagine this ship flying by an asteroid belt and then having all the asteroids sucked out of the belt into its wake after it passes? LOL In fact, if the gravitational pull were strong enough, smaller objects would be attracted to it from all sides, including the direction in which it was travelling. How about sucking some asteroid into the ship head-on?

Still, a pretty cool idea. I imagine that stopping is not as hard as you might think as you might achieve the directional control (i.e. braking) simply by reversing polarity of the magnetic field.

R

It wouldn't be flying through the asteroid belt, it would be in a different dimension while travelling faster than the speed of light (the 'speed limit' of our dimension).

One thing that worries me is this -- in our dimension there is so much 'empty space' and only a tiny amount of matter (and even that tiny amount of matter is also mostly empty space...in actuality the difference between matter and space is insignificant but that's a whole another topic). What's to say that in some other dimension, there is mostly matter and only a tiny bit of empty space? If the ship travels to that dimension, it would be instantly destroyed from either hitting something or maybe obliterated because it could possibly occupy the same location as a piece of matter in that dimension.

 

[Rainman]

It wouldn't be flying through the asteroid belt, it would be in a different dimension while travelling faster than the speed of light (the 'speed limit' of our dimension).

One thing that worries me is this -- in our dimension there is so much 'empty space' and only a tiny amount of matter (and even that tiny amount of matter is also mostly empty space...in actuality the difference between matter and space is insignificant but that's a whole another topic). What's to say that in some other dimension, there is mostly matter and only a tiny bit of empty space? If the ship travels to that dimension, it would be instantly destroyed from either hitting something or maybe obliterated because it could possibly occupy the same location as a piece of matter in that dimension.

Note to self: Do not volunteer for the maiden test flight of this vehicle...LOL

R