BBC News: Warp Drive Possible

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by ragethecorp

That would be pretty awesome but...



Wouldn't that just mean that the people traveling to the stars would just die thousands of years before they got there? Depending on how fast they were travel of course.

you missed this part!

It was a fantastic idea. There would be no limit to the velocity that a starship could attain.

I guess if you can move at any speed, then you can get to anywhere very fast! so places that are hundreds of light years away.. might not be hundreds of light years away??

But at that crazy speed I hate to run into (hit into) some thing like a asstroid, planet, etc. because no one noticed it!

[Lugzan]

ok, one more riddle for you =)

according to theory of Mr. Einstein, everything that reaches speeds close to light experiences a completely different time. like it was explained, if a human travels some years at the speed of light, actual time passed would be thousands.

so my question is, what good does astronomy have to say if the photon particles even from closest stars that have traveled several years at the speed that they have and the actual time passed is thousands of years? kind of laggy information, eh?


J.

[Finch]

Originally Posted by Lugzan

ok, one more riddle for you =)

according to theory of Mr. Einstein, everything that reaches speeds close to light experiences a completely different time. like it was explained, if a human travels some years at the speed of light, actual time passed would be thousands.

so my question is, what good does astronomy have to say if the photon particles even from closest stars that have traveled several years at the speed that they have and the actual time passed is thousands of years? kind of laggy information, eh?


J.

I don't get the riddle. The theory in question is a wholly different concept than FTL travel in which time dilation would take place as it would, essentially, exist outside the space/time continuum.. as was mentioned TARDIS.. it's bigger on the inside.