Do you think we (HUMANITY) will ever develop FASTER THAN LIGHT travel??? (SERIOUS)

[StreetWise]

I say yes. I know people say nothing can travel faster than the speed of light and even if we did we wouldnt be able to navigate spaceships HOWEVER crazier **** has happened I mean, go back 200 years and tell people about this thing called the "INTERNET" and see their reaction.

[strongsmallkid]

humans will never be able to go the speed of light.

[Hat_Monster]

[chrisp.]

http://digg.com/general_sciences/Sci...ter_Than_Light

[INGENIOSO]

not sure if serious

[JustAnotherUser]

But that would mean that the gamma factor would become mathematically impossible, wouldn't it?

[tex]\gamma =\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}[/tex]

[StreetWise]

not sure if serious

I'm dead serious

In order to reach other galaxies, we need to develop faster than light speed travel. Even travelling at the speed of light will take like 20 years to reach another galaxy (I think).

[.Phil]

Tachyons, we need to find them.

[sh_sh]

no.

[beamer187]

I'm dead serious

In order to reach other galaxies, we need to develop faster than light speed travel. Even travelling at the speed of light will take like 20 years to reach another galaxy (I think).

unless we find a way to bend space/time or use wormhole type ****

[Delta1]

Tachyons, we need to find them.

just dont trust the guise in tunics

[Brasmonky]

I say yes. I know people say nothing can travel faster than the speed of light and even if we did we wouldnt be able to navigate spaceships HOWEVER crazier **** has happened I mean, go back 200 years and tell people about this thing called the "INTERNET" and see their reaction.

The speed, not sure.. kinda hard to say. But I think eventually (some intelligent life) will be able to travel some where faster than the speed of light...


example,

Reaching a destination through linear movement takes 100 light years.
Bending the fabric of space to make point A and B closer will then lessen the travel time.

[djfuzzy]

Even if we were to accomplish that, you wouldn't be able to see it happen. So it doesn't really matter.

[IronAlex]

I'm dead serious

In order to reach other galaxies, we need to develop faster than light speed travel. Even travelling at the speed of light will take like 20 years to reach another galaxy (I think).

No it would be impossible to do, the best shot we have at reaching another galaxy is to warp the space around a ship using massive amounts of energy. Traveling faster then the speed of light would cause you to travel through time as well which can be remembered from this nice little limerick:

There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She set out one day,
in a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

Faster than light travel can't happen because it would require an infinite amount of energy, however we have gotten fairly close in particle accelerators. Even still we can never actually hit light speed.

[Tsudo]

I think we'll eventually (presuming humanity doesn't kill itself first, or a natural disaster does) be able to SAY we can, based on the premise that we can cover the same amount of distance in a certain time.

What I mean is that if we develop a means to bend space we and go from point A to point B, we can then say, 'that's the equivalent to traveling at such and such a speed'.

But I'm not a physicist, don't have a wheelchair and a cool talking voice, take it as my little wishful thinking for humanity.

[anonymous]

[brunch]

all u have to do is get into space shuttle, trap some light, add some cell tech and lift off......u will reach other galaxy in no time

profit

[Brasmonky]

oh god I just blew my own mind. If some species was able to see me where I am sitting right now, and they were 100 light years away, I'd actually be dead in their present time

[jack3d_brah9]

as you approach the speed of light, time slows down
so if you hit the speed of light then time actually stands still
so does that mean if you go faster than the speed of light that you go backwards through time?
mind = blown

[dmacfour]

I'm dead serious

In order to reach other galaxies, we need to develop faster than light speed travel. Even travelling at the speed of light will take like 20 years to reach another galaxy (I think).

much much longer than that.

millions.

The closest STAR would take a couple of years to get to at light speed.

[Mises]

why waste your time traveling at the speed of light when you can just warp space and time and take a short cut across the galaxy

[Brasmonky]

as you approach the speed of light, time slows down
so if you hit the speed of light then time actually stands still
so does that mean if you go faster than the speed of light that you go backwards through time?
mind = blown

Time slows down in a relative way.

You travel 1 light year away, well information from your source will take 1 light year to receive.

Atleast I think thats the way they consider it.

I'm dumb tho and not a scientist. I tried to bury one of my fap rags to see if a baby would grow so i'm not really sure of how things work.

[Crazy_Desi]

just because einstein said it would be impossible doesn't mean he's right.

just think, what if theres an alien species that has lived for a million years longer than us. they're probably already past the speed of light.

just because we make a law, such as thermodynamics, doesn't mean it's 100% right. there is a lot we don't know.. what if some other species has found ways around the laws of science that we believe to be true?

[upper90farpost]

Time slows down in a relative way.

You travel 1 light year away, well information from your source will take 1 light year to receive.

Atleast I think thats the way they consider it.

I'm dumb tho and not a scientist. I tried to bury one of my fap rags to see if a baby would grow so i'm not really sure of how things work.

if you travel at the speed of light for 20 years in space, then turn around and travel 20 lightyears back to earth and land, everyone and everything on earth will have aged 80 years, but you will have aged very little, a matter of days older than you were when you left

edit: 40 years not 80 years

[blananana4]

hmmm.

[Brasmonky]

just because einstein said it would be impossible doesn't mean he's right.

just think, what if theres an alien species that has lived for a million years longer than us. they're probably already past the speed of light.

just because we make a law, such as thermodynamics, doesn't mean it's 100% right. there is a lot we don't know.. what if some other species has found ways around the laws of science that we believe to be true?

did he actually say it was impossible though? The theory kind of has some holes in it... such as saying traveling at the speed of light you'll age slower...

[Crazy_Desi]

if you travel at the speed of light, time stops. so does that mean you stop aging?

[Brasmonky]

if you travel at the speed of light for 20 years in space, then turn around and travel 20 lightyears back to earth and land, everyone and everything on earth will have aged 80 years, but you will have aged very little, a matter of days older than you were when you left

edit: 40 years not 80 years

1 light year is travailing at the speed of light for 1 year. This doesn't affect your natural metabolism in your body from resisting aging. Correct?

[IronAlex]

oh god I just blew my own mind. If some species was able to see me where I am sitting right now, and they were 100 light years away, I'd actually be dead in their present time

You want to blow your mind if you could see a planet instantly 2.5 million light years away standing still time would be about the same for both of you but if you simply got up and walked away from said planet you could see hundreds of years into there past, and reverse if you walked toward them. The reason for this is the distance between our planet and some alien planet.

Oh and if there where ways around the laws of science they wouldn't be laws to begin with, for example Einstein's general theory of relativity is just a theory because while it holds up everywhere we look it is incomplete. However a brillant man named Godel came up with a incompleteness theorem which says that there is a limit to the amount of knowlage we can have, he even had a proof to show that our math (simple math) could not answer all questions. You can read about it if interested here : http://www.miskatonic.org/godel.html

[Brasmonky]

if you travel at the speed of light, time stops. so does that mean you stop aging?

Aging does not relate to time as we know it.

If that were the case, animals would live for ever because they have no concept of time.