Vektram Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Check it out: Alcubierre Drive Seems kinda cool, although it's apparently impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 OH - i don't really understand all the equations and stuff but it sounds interesting - Maybe someday it will be possible..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektram Posted November 7, 2005 Author Share Posted November 7, 2005 Heh, I got a bit lost in the maths part too :p I love how it would work, there's just no way to make/leave one :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quosego Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 OH - i don't really understand all the equations and stuff but it sounds interesting - Maybe someday it will be possible..... I would really be worried if you would understand the equations.... :) So the only thing we have to do is create a warp drive.... Allthought this will probably still take awhile it's really fun to know that warp is actually possible.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philly Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Yea sounds pretty cool, hopefully someday we can actually create a stable warp bubble, the problem is tho once you create one how do you stop one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quosego Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 wouldn't be much fun traveling FTL if you can't stop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Is there anyone out there who does understand the equations.... Yeah stopping the Warp Bubble might be tricky :) - you could always pop it.....ok that was bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 OH - i don't really understand all the equations Sometimes it's nice to have a physics degree.. :D On the subject: it has been around for some time... It's an interesting subject, but extremly theoretical and once they solve most of the practicality problems (if ever), it will probably still take an extremly long time before it can be implemented because even though the ship itself will not really consume energy, but to create the space effect itself (and hopefully stop it), you would still require a very efficient energysource... The deep research about it is very math intensive and it has run into some very complicated issues. In other words, our theories are just not good enough, yet... (I won't be the one improving them though :D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Ok - i'm going from what i know on Star Trek here (i'm hoping there are maybe some similarities here) wouldn't there be a problem with Hull Stress....such speeds against the hull....though i have no knowledge of physics here so perhaps i'm making no sense..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Ok - i'm going from what i know on Star Trek here (i'm hoping there are maybe some similarities here) wouldn't there be a problem with Hull Stress....such speeds against the hull....though i have no knowledge of physics here so perhaps i'm making no sense..... No, the ship in question will be in complete relative rest compared to its environment. Stress from 'speed' of the the surrounding space should be annihilated at the wavefronts I would suspect. Anybody got Maple/MatLab/Mathematica handy? :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philly Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 If i remember right the warp bubble surrounds the ship, in which the ship does not move. The bubble moves through/around the surrounding objects. Therefore hullstress wouldn't be a factor in travlling. However there may be significant hull stresses when forming and deforming the warp bubble. There lies the biggest problem, forming a stable warp bubble due to the vast amount of negative energy needed to form the bubble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Sounds good, but...oops, that bunch of numbers ruined it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Sounds good' date=' but...oops, that bunch of numbers ruined it for me.[/quote'] Actually, it's that bunch of numbers that get the job done (or not..). ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektram Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 OH - i don't really understand all the equations and stuff but it sounds interesting - Maybe someday it will be possible..... I would really be worried if you would understand the equations.... :) So the only thing we have to do is create a warp drive.... Allthought this will probably still take awhile it's really fun to know that warp is actually possible.. We're like, 15/16 :p Dr. Alcubierre's paper on the physics of space warp was published in 1994, well after the physics of the warp drive were set down by Paramount Pictures, and similarities between the two are strictly coincidental in nature That's wierd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furious Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 It is impossible now but who knows maybe in the future. Besides that isn't the final version of it. A dutch scientists reworked it in 1999 (original came out 1994). He manged to lower the energy required for it. If things like that keep happening maybe one day it will be a reality. Besides you should never say impossible. Most of the thigns we accept has facts in Physics are actually just theories. Anyone can be wrong just because a a big name said so doesn't mean it is (Like Newton). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taleitha Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 got matlab...what do you want in it? and those equations aren't really all that complicated...well, the ones they've shown anyway, I'm sure there's a lot more they haven't. PAGES! Back to my hole now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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