Warp Drive

[Duke Wellington]

There are four known forces of nature.

Weak Force: Allows sub atomic particles to switch into being other types of sub atomic particles.

Strong Force: Allows sub atomic particles to bond together.

Electromagnetism: Electric and magnetic fields, caused by electrons.

Gravity: The most controversial one as there is no evidence its a force. General Relativity says its the curvature of space-time, quantum theory wants it to be a force caused by a graviton particle.

So the aim of a Unified Field Theory is to find out how they all unite into one super force that would have existed very early in the universes life. We can unify the Weak, Strong, and Electromagnetic forces with each other, but not gravity. Or we can unify gravity with electromagnetism in 5 dimensional space called Kaluza-Klein space, but not with the weak or strong force.

Good so far? I`ll get straight to the point. Put a spaceship in a very strong EM field. So strong that gravity and EM unify (making them the same force). The crafty thing about EM fields is we can charge up a super conductor and they dont have any resistance. So we could spend a decade charging the ship up, and voila! Off we go with a warp drive.

[Guyver]

I’m not sure you connected the dots with warp drive there.  True, intense gravity like that of a black hole and does warp spacetime, but has it been shown that gravity and EM even could unify?  I wouldn’t think so based on what you stated in the OP.  Although, I thought the graviton had been confirmed by experiment some years ago?

Edited August 16, 2022 by Guyver

[acute]

58 minutes ago, Cookie Monster said:

There are four known forces of nature.

You nailed it!  with "known"

[bmk1245]

You'd vaporize your spaceship.

[moonman]

OP and that trevor borax johnson loon should get together and have long nutjob conversations about how soaking in hot water while wagging your tail will make you live forever while warp traveling through space heat with a gyroscope (as long as you don't use soap).

Edited August 17, 2022 by moonman

[+joc]

6 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:

There are four known forces of nature.

Weak Force: Allows sub atomic particles to switch into being other types of sub atomic particles.

Strong Force: Allows sub atomic particles to bond together.

Electromagnetism: Electric and magnetic fields, caused by electrons.

Gravity: The most controversial one as there is no evidence its a force. General Relativity says its the curvature of space-time, quantum theory wants it to be a force caused by a graviton particle.

So the aim of a Unified Field Theory is to find out how they all unite into one super force that would have existed very early in the universes life. We can unify the Weak, Strong, and Electromagnetic forces with each other, but not gravity. Or we can unify gravity with electromagnetism in 5 dimensional space called Kaluza-Klein space, but not with the weak or strong force.

Good so far? I`ll get straight to the point. Put a spaceship in a very strong EM field. So strong that gravity and EM unify (making them the same force). The crafty thing about EM fields is we can charge up a super conductor and they dont have any resistance. So we could spend a decade charging the ship up, and voila! Off we go with a warp drive.

You have obviously watched way too much Star Trek.

[zep73]

17 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:

quantum theory wants it to be a force caused by a graviton particle.

Nope. The graviton is not a part of the nucleus, like you suggest. It's a photon/radiation like particle, that travels at the speed of light, and is generated by high power collisions, like the merging of stars or black holes. It's what likely causes gravitational waves.

If it exists. We can't directly measure gravitational interactions.

 

Edited August 17, 2022 by zep73

[fred_mc]

18 hours ago, acute said:

You nailed it!  with "known"

Yes, there might be more than the four known forces: https://www.bbc.com/news/56643677

Edited August 17, 2022 by fred_mc

[Duke Wellington]

18 hours ago, Guyver said:

I’m not sure you connected the dots with warp drive there.  True, intense gravity like that of a black hole and does warp spacetime, but has it been shown that gravity and EM even could unify?  I wouldn’t think so based on what you stated in the OP.  Although, I thought the graviton had been confirmed by experiment some years ago?

Gravity and EM can be unified together without the other 2 included, its called Kaluza-Klein space.

If you imagine going from a football down to an atom (a billionth of a football). Then do it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, then you are down to the plank length. Gravitons are predicted to exist down there. 1 x 10 to the minus 54.

Thats so far beyond our atom smasher technology it might well take 500 years before we come up with something to detect a graviton. All we know at this stage (assuming they exist) is they will have a right handed spin of 1. That means both anti-gravitons and gravitons can only attract.

Edited August 17, 2022 by Cookie Monster

[bmk1245]

2 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:

Gravity and EM can be unified together without the other 2 included, its called Kaluza-Klein space.

If you imagine going from a football down to an atom (a billionth of a football). Then do it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, then you are down to the plank length. Gravitons are predicted to exist down there. 1 x 10 to the minus 54.

Thats so far beyond our atom smasher technology it might well take 500 years before we come up with something to detect a graviton. All we know at this stage (assuming they exist) is they will have a right handed spin of 1. That means both anti-gravitons and gravitons can only attract.

Levels of energy needed are ginormous:

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electroweak unification occurs at around 100 GeV, grand unification is predicted to occur at 10¹⁶ GeV, and unification of the GUT force with gravity is expected at the Planck energy, roughly 10¹⁹ GeV.

(link, bolding mine)

Before you reach 10²⁸ eV, your spaceship would go through stages being liquid, vapour, plasma, atoms ripped appart, proton decay, quark-gluon plasma...

[zep73]

1 hour ago, bmk1245 said:

Levels of energy needed are ginormous:

(link, bolding mine)

Before you reach 10²⁸ eV, your spaceship would go through stages being liquid, vapour, plasma, atoms ripped appart, proton decay, quark-gluon plasma...

A pleasure to read a post from someone who knows his physics, although "atoms ripped apart" and plasma is the same thing.

[bmk1245]

9 minutes ago, zep73 said:

A pleasure to read a post from someone who knows his physics, although "atoms ripped apart" and plasma is the same thing.

Indeed, I made mistake, not 'atoms' but 'nuclei'.

[zep73]

26 minutes ago, bmk1245 said:

Indeed, I made mistake, not 'atoms' but 'nuclei'.

You had that in the next step: quark-gluon plasma
(It takes a lot more energy to break the strong force than the EM, so there has to be two steps.)

[Duke Wellington]

1 hour ago, bmk1245 said:

Levels of energy needed are ginormous:

(link, bolding mine)

Before you reach 10²⁸ eV, your spaceship would go through stages being liquid, vapour, plasma, atoms ripped appart, proton decay, quark-gluon plasma...

Technically the bubble only needs to be one planck unit thick, and it goes around the ship.

Edited August 17, 2022 by Cookie Monster

[bmk1245]

11 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:

Technically the bubble only needs to be one planck unit thick, and it goes around the ship.

OK, I'll omit constants/conversion units (won't change general idea).

Energy density ~ T⁴ (T - temperature). T ~ 10³² K (10²⁸ eV), hence energy density ~ 10¹²⁸ J/m³.

Your bubble, say, has radius of 100 meters and thickness 10^-35 m, hence volume of your bubble shell ~ 10^-31 m³.

Thus energy (energy density * volume) ~ 10⁹⁷ J.

If I made mistake, say, on the order of 10³⁰ J (10⁶⁷ J instead of 10⁹⁷), still unimaginably huge number.

[Duke Wellington]

7 hours ago, bmk1245 said:

OK, I'll omit constants/conversion units (won't change general idea).

Energy density ~ T⁴ (T - temperature). T ~ 10³² K (10²⁸ eV), hence energy density ~ 10¹²⁸ J/m³.

Your bubble, say, has radius of 100 meters and thickness 10^-35 m, hence volume of your bubble shell ~ 10^-31 m³.

Thus energy (energy density * volume) ~ 10⁹⁷ J.

If I made mistake, say, on the order of 10³⁰ J (10⁶⁷ J instead of 10⁹⁷), still unimaginably huge number.

How about a 10 metre radius ship?

Also why does it need to fill the volume of the bubble shell? Can we not just have a very thin bubble wall where the energy is?

[bmk1245]

1 hour ago, Cookie Monster said:

How about a 10 metre radius ship?

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Won't make significant dent, we'll get 10⁹⁵ J, instead of 10⁹⁷ J.

1 hour ago, Cookie Monster said:

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Also why does it need to fill the volume of the bubble shell? Can we not just have a very thin bubble wall where the energy is?

Thats what 'shell' means in my post, and thats why volume is so tiny, i.e. 10^-31 m³; with 10 meter sized bubble, its 10^-33 m³.