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To reach hyperspace, would it be possible for spaceships to create some sort of magnetic field, that is basically the opposite of the energy around them, negative to positive, and thus using the energy of the universe to catapult them dozens of times faster than the speed of light?

>> No.1671459

And what IS the energy of the universe?

>> No.1671463

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

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>> No.1671466

That was complete gibberish.

>> No.1671468

>>1671459
quantum physics

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>>1671466
you mad you didn't realize this before me?

>> No.1671477

Well yes but you would have to create both of your magnetic fields the universe is well, not understood.

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>>1671463
thanks for the wiki
fuck you for the sage

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>>1671451
Still not faster than light...

>> No.1671503

You don't move the spaceship, you move the universe around you.

>> No.1671518

>>1671503
so what if two spaceships were moving the universe opposite directions at the same time?

>> No.1671542

>>1671518
its a quote from futurama you dumbass

>> No.1671547

I hate to rain on everyone's parade but it seems entirely probable that FTL travel is impossible and will never happen.

If it was possible, there'd be aliens everywhere since the dawn of man.

>> No.1671553

>>1671547

true that. Sorry scifi nerds but superluminal speeds are probably impossible.

>> No.1671558

>>1671503
well you can't do it without the poop of the nibblet

>> No.1671562

>>1671463
>In 1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre
>Mexican physicist

I don't think so tim

>> No.1671568

>>1671547
How would you know if they aren't?

>> No.1671593

>>1671568

Why wouldn't they make themselves obvious?

Even if some did not for some reason, why wouldn't at least one civilization out of the probable millions in the universe make themselves obvious in some way?

FTL + self-replicating machines mean that all it would take it is one civilization, somewhere in the universe, to assimilate everything to their own whims. A hyperadvanced civilization could convert the entire universe to a giant computer.

Since nanotech & AI are a lot more practical and likely, it follows that FTL is (in all likelihood) impossible.