Can we travel to Mars within 3 hours ?

I'm on the same line with PolCat81, if science wasn't so self righteous and arrogant it could be a fluid guidance based on visible observations for people to base things on. I don't mean to sound 'religious' but science could easily glorious if it wasnt so adament everything is set in stone, just to later admit it's not.

science could easily glorious if it wasnt so adament everything is set in stone That's the exact opposite of what "Science" is. But anyway, soon as we get the Mass Effect fields in place we'll have this whole problem covered anyway. Might as well just stop researching all this other stuff in the meantime.

dream on well nothing is impossible but the speed of light aha we'll see about that

4 could they possibly be speaking of subspace instead of a different dimension? Define subspace. Seems like a fancy word people throw around from watching sci-fi movies and tv shows, but no one really knows what it is... or worse, people assume that it actually has some sort of scientific meaning.

I once read in a book, while doing independent research, that crystals vibrate at rates that are calculated to exceed the speed of light. The source seemed credible, as the explanation for why. I can't remember the reasoning, however. I have little doubt there is a way around the speed limit, but could we survive the change in dimension? That's another leap entirely.

Full circle. Here we are and the Government will stop anyone not under their direct control. Ralph Ring and Otis T. Carr built and tested a craft that did just that in 1957. A full year before I was born. In my young teens I had an idea similar to this but I lacked funding and ambition to pursue it. As I just wanted to have fun at that time of my life. Go ahead and build one click on the link for how to.

I believe Heim's idea isn't necessarily that you "can travel faster than light" in that dimension, rather "as compared to our dimension". Think about it like if you were a piece of paper living on the surface of a table in a 2d world. Then I come along "Mr. 3d" man and step from one end of the table to the other. Because I used a dimension to travel in that you can't see or use, it appears to you (the flat paper), that I arrived at the other end of the table instantaneously. Kind of a rough analogy, but I'm tired--Does it make sense? I suppose the real kicker is really whether or not Heim's so... [More]

I'm curious as to what would power these types of devices and how much energy it would take to keep them powered? I work with a line of water heaters that uses spent exhaust to cycle back through the tank as a way to be more effecient. I've often wondered why auto manufactures don't use exhaust for some type of useful function outside of powering a turbo? Tangent......my bad I think it would be some form of a plasma propulsion...

I believe Heim's idea isn't necessarily that you "can travel faster than light" in that dimension, rather "as compared to our dimension". Think about it like if you were a piece of paper living on the surface of a table in a 2d world. Then I come along "Mr. 3d" man and step from one end of the table to the other. Because I used a dimension to travel in that you can't see or use, it appears to you (the flat paper), that I arrived at the other end of the table instantaneously. Kind of a rough analogy, but I'm tired--Does it make sense? I suppose the real kicker is really whether or not Heim's so... [More]

I have not studied the physics behind super stong magnetic fields, but could a magnetic field be generated that could bend space/time? It would seem to be beyond Earthly technology to produce enough power to do anything. Yes. According to General Relativity a magnetic field can bend space/time. A magnetic field would have a certain energy density, and a gargantuan energy density can bend space/time the same way a moderate mass density can (remember the c2 proportionality between mass and energy). However since energy doesn't ``self accumulate'' the way mass does, any space/time bending due to ... [More]