/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2846668
> mfw a phil major doesn't know the difference between conscience and consciousness.

>>2567050
> implying I'm American
> implying that C isn't significantly harder than Java
> implying that managing memory isn't difficult to new programmers

>>2170865
VIRUS THAT KILLS EVERY CELL ON THE PLANET. SO AMAZING IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY SPECIES BARRIERS. SO VIRULENT IT GETS THE WHOLE WORLD IN 6 DAYS.

>mfw

> mfw people think he's asking why humans have sex (behaviorally speaking) and not how sexual reproduction evolved in the first place.

> mfw when the discussion section of the paper raises the possibility that humans are psychically influencing random number generators.

> Alcubierre, Michio Kaku and all those great physicists say it would work, so I trust them.

> My face when.

The alcubierre drive is an increasingly elaborate hacked together piece of math wank, forged using every fringe idea in GR thrown together into the same arena smash brothers style. It can only exist on paper, because:

- The energy requirements are enormous. A volume of 100m^3 being transmitted through even the "best" implementation of a warp drive (best defined as lowest energy reuqirements) would demand more energy than exists in the entire universe.

- It requires absurd quantities of exotic matter; to achieve even 10 times the speed of light it needs more exotic matter than the mass of all the matter in the observable universe.

- It requires the existence of negative energy and naked singularities.

- There are no known methods by which you could even create the space time bubble in the first place.

The following paper demonstrates that even if you could get one to work, it would just explode as soon as you started using it anyway:

http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v79/i12/e124017

Oh, and even if this was all ignored and you somehow got it to work, nobody inside the bubble could steer it, start it or stop it. It needs infrastructure (like an interstellar railroad) to provide those services for it, which means that the first trip is always STL.

>>1997677
Fucking Captcha.

THIS was mfw.