Big Think

Bruce Allen on January 20, 2008, 2:21 AM

OK… against my better judgment, I’ll have a bash.

The concept of warping between two physical objects in unbound-space is always destined to be obscure and, dare I say it, hypothetical. Whipping into warp-drive for a day on Saturn simply is not on.

Hey… I love Star-Trek as much as the next guy, and they have done a magnificent job of portraying the future in some of the early episodes. However, there is always going to be a demarcation between the possible and the impossible. Even if our civilization survives for a billion years, I wouldn’t want to be the first one in the chamber when they start testing the “Beam Me Up” machine.

Thilina B on January 21, 2008, 3:30 PM

Maby we should concentrate on slower space travel before trying to go faster than light.

the journey of a thousand miles has a lot of small steps

Albert Kos on January 21, 2008, 3:56 PM

The thinking about time and space in our community is based on experience. We do know that we can run 100m in 10s. But, take a look at quantum physiks and at the Informational web that is throwing us into a new dimension of technologie. What is the base of this technologie? It’s a wave, clearly seperated in form of a steady wave, with fixed frequency. The information is riding on it. And you are able to receive it if you are synchronising on it. The hole Universe is build up on this Theorie. If you split a quantum state into two accurate “waves” and if you send them in two different directions, now you change the state of only one “Wave”, the other wave is immediately adopting this state, without wasting time, so everything is coppled by information. But today the exact behavior of this infinite small Waves or helix is not clear. This bag of information-wool, seems to be a woven carpet. One day maybe humans will be able to understand how to wove Information carpets and this day will maybe be the day of Warp Drive. Wired?

Johnson Harold on January 21, 2008, 9:22 PM

Warp drives will probably come long after testing with worm holes.

Not saying that this is possible, but until humans begin to understand space and it’s unanswered questions is when we’ll start to dabble in multidimensional space travel.

Michael Lee on January 24, 2008, 7:36 AM

Well they have already tested teleporting an oxygen molecule and they did succesfully, now they don’t know where it was teleported to, but it was definitly gone.

Johnathon Nelson on January 25, 2008, 6:26 AM

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html

Johnathon Nelson on January 25, 2008, 6:26 AM

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html