QUOTE(magnetar @ Mar 24 2007, 06:44 PM) [snapback]1598683[/snapback]
"Iranian student Mohammad Mansouryar wants to lead a world wide revolution in physics, but is anyone listening?"
This is the opening line to an article I ran across a few days ago. I have seen one or two ideas in the past, but do not understand how someone can surpass the energies of black holes, or the strength of quarks. Unless there is a shortcut to "folding space", it sound very fantastic.
This is sometimes proposed as an explanation for overcoming the scales of distance across interstellar space.
Link 1Link 2Link 3I had a (admittedly) quick look at was he was presenting and in my honest opinion there is nothing new put forth. What disturbed me a bit was that he was looking all the way from the theoretical start to the actual implementation of the hardware. That quite frankly tells me that this hasn't really been thought through just yet.
Secondly, creating a wormhole or a warp drive requires massive (I mean, really really humongous) amounts of energy anyway one slices it; that is something one unfortunately cannot run away from. Thus, in my honest opinion I think an expert in the field would peel it apart and find some wrong assumptions - just a guess from my side, though.
Best,
Badeskov