/sci/ - Science & Math

>The images in this thread.

Inurdaes and me should write a science fiction novel.

Faster-than-light travel, like most things you see in science-fiction, is a lot like a religion for nerds who won't give up their dreams of being Shepard and saving the galaxy.

First there was Miguel Alcubierre with the alcubierre drive, then it turned out that it required either an already-existing 'bubble', or tracks to be laid down subluminally. Then Hawking goes off to prove that any FTL spaceship/time machine must require negative energy densities, which are quite impossible to obtain because they are instantly supressed. Consider it a loan you must repay several times over within the second of taking it.

Then there were Kip Thorne's wormholes, and, what do you guess? When a wormhole pair is inflated one mouth has to be dragged to the other end -- Subluminally. Go anywhere above 74% of c, and the difference in relativistic time dilation between the two will pop your dear balls of warped spacetime.

Then along came quantum entanglement -- And boo hoo, it can only send randomness.

The last bastion for Faster-than-light travel is Heim Theory.

>>2984892

Problem?

I'm really mature for my age and know HTML!

>>2773449

I say we abandon this pointless trifle and join forces in the pursuit of glorious science.

>>2680952

Zubrin thread? Zubrin thread.

Everybody post Zubrin to celebrate the archiving.

>>2379119

Yes that is very nice.

>>2202066

Yes fuck I mad.

Now dump it back into the Helipause you.

>mfw butthurt and not being able to calculate a Hohmann

>>2187175

Godammit man.

God dammit.