i was wondering if warp seed exist. the reason i wonder this is because if it is only a theory what is possible put come going fast than the speed of light.
i think it will be fun discuss.
sincerely,
human reaper
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The only time I have heard the phrase "Warp speed" was in Star Trek I have to admit 
In fact, I always used to wonder just how many miles per hour "warp speed" was supposed to be. ie "Warp Speed 10 Sulu".
In fact, I always used to wonder just how many miles per hour "warp speed" was supposed to be. ie "Warp Speed 10 Sulu".
Faster than light speed is thought to be impossible in general relativity. The more energy something gains, the more mass it gains which makes it harder to accelerate. So, no matter how hard you try, you can't penetrate the light barrier. So no, warp speed is not possible in real life.
Actually a warp drive is theoretically possible, it wouldn't work by accelerating to the speed of light (that is impossible), but rather by manipulating space itself.
Look up Alcubierre drive and you'll get a lot of information.
Look up Alcubierre drive and you'll get a lot of information.
QUOTE (Raptor @ Dec 13 2007, 07:02 PM) 
Actually a warp drive is theoretically possible, it wouldn't work by accelerating to the speed of light (that is impossible), but rather by manipulating space itself.
Look up Alcubierre drive and you'll get a lot of information.
Look up Alcubierre drive and you'll get a lot of information.
Good linkage, Raptor. And you caught that word "accelarating," which is impossible in GR, and the universe as we understand it. Also, I suggest having a look at Kip Thorne's version of FTL travel, which works via wormholes. He dreamed this up after Carl Sagan sought his technical advice on how to use black holes for FTL travel in his book "Contact." Dr. Thorne has also done some just all around novel thinking on a number of areas.
QUOTE (Raptor @ Dec 14 2007, 03:02 AM)
Actually a warp drive is theoretically possible, it wouldn't work by accelerating to the speed of light (that is impossible), but rather by manipulating space itself.
Look up Alcubierre drive and you'll get a lot of information.
Look up Alcubierre drive and you'll get a lot of information.
Thanx Raptor .
Well it doesn't exist now.
1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed in the Journal of Classical and Quantum Gravity a method of stretching space in a wave which would in theory cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand. The ship would ride this wave inside a region known as a warp bubble of flat space. Since the ship is not moving within this bubble, but carried along as the region itself moves, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation do not apply in the way they would in the case of a ship moving at high velocity through flat spacetime. Also, this method of travel does not actually involve moving faster than light in a local sense, since a light beam within the bubble would still always move faster than the ship; it is only "faster than light" in the sense that, thanks to the contraction of the space in front of it, the ship could reach its destination faster than a light beam restricted to travelling outside the warp bubble. Thus, the Alcubierre drive does not contradict the conventional claim that relativity forbids a slower-than-light object to accelerate to faster-than-light speeds. However, there are no known methods to create such a warp bubble in a region that does not already contain one, or to leave the bubble once inside it, so the Alcubierre drive remains a theoretical concept at this time. Source
1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed in the Journal of Classical and Quantum Gravity a method of stretching space in a wave which would in theory cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand. The ship would ride this wave inside a region known as a warp bubble of flat space. Since the ship is not moving within this bubble, but carried along as the region itself moves, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation do not apply in the way they would in the case of a ship moving at high velocity through flat spacetime. Also, this method of travel does not actually involve moving faster than light in a local sense, since a light beam within the bubble would still always move faster than the ship; it is only "faster than light" in the sense that, thanks to the contraction of the space in front of it, the ship could reach its destination faster than a light beam restricted to travelling outside the warp bubble. Thus, the Alcubierre drive does not contradict the conventional claim that relativity forbids a slower-than-light object to accelerate to faster-than-light speeds. However, there are no known methods to create such a warp bubble in a region that does not already contain one, or to leave the bubble once inside it, so the Alcubierre drive remains a theoretical concept at this time. Source
the first time i ever heard of the word warp speed is the time i heard about the horizons mission to pluto which said for it to reach pluto in a amount of time it would need to go warp speed but i have a theory o the fastest speed which is the speed of time
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