FTL

[None !TJ9qoWuqvA No.3610180]

FTL by folding space is not precluded by either the laws of physics, nor thermodynamics. Why do you believe it to be impossible?

[Anonymous No.3610202]

I'm sure one day we will
Figure that question out OP.

[Anonymous No.3610203]

>>3610198
wormholes through HELL

[cy No.3610198]

Well, folding space would imply you're only shortening the distance between two points and not actually traversing said distance at faster than light speeds.

Event Horizon was a kickass spaceship but it didn't go faster than light; it used wormholes.

[Krakengineer !!5XY+x7grkpt No.3610211]

The laws of thermodynamics is a law of physics so your statement is redundant. FTL travel is not possible due to the law of special relativity, first law of thermodynamics, and several other physical laws.

[Anonymous No.3610262]

>>3610198
>traversing said distance at faster than light speeds
It takes light longer to get there then me. I'm faster than light

[Anonymous No.3610285]

>>3610211
>The laws of thermodynamics is a law of physics
>The laws is a law
>laws is law
Stopped reading

[Anonymous No.3610294]

How the fuck would you even "grab on" to space to fold it in the first place?

[Anonymous No.3610303]

the spaceship doesn't move at FTL, the universe does.

[Anonymous No.3610313]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
no one said it was impossible.

[Anonymous No.3610335]

i don't. i just have no idea how one goes about folding 'space' in the first place. To do that I'd think you'd need something with negative mass, and a hell of a lot of it, in order to fold space enough to travel any distance. Now, if there was a way to create and stabilize micro black holes, they might be used to warp space enough to make something like an Alcubierre possible.

[Anonymous No.3610336]

>>3610285

That's probably because you're an ass pie.

[cy No.3610343]

>>3610335
*negative energy

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3610349]

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.

[Anonymous No.3610368]

>>3610349
well still, that would be pretty useful even if you could only go 74% of c

[Anonymous No.3610369]

>>3610343
>>3610343
>>3610343

>Negative energy
FUCK OFF!!! That negative enough, buddy?

[Anonymous No.3610389]

>>3610349
>must require negative energy densities, which are quite impossible to obtain because they are instantly supressed
>because they are instantly supressed
>supressed
Suppressed is spelled with 2 Ps
STOPPED READING

[Anonymous No.3610675]

bump

[Anonymous No.3612761]

[Anonymous No.3612780]

>>3610262
If that is your interpretation of speed, then the light speed is not the maximum speed.

[Anonymous No.3612787]

What if we, like, folded like, time instead of space.

Like so you take all that time to get where you're going real slowly, but then you fold time and you're there soon after you left.

[Anonymous No.3612793]

>>3612787
You'd lose temporal consistency.

[Anonymous No.3612795]

>>3610349

>or tracks to be laid down subluminally.
>When a wormhole pair is inflated one mouth has to be dragged to the other end -- Subluminally.

Its still FTL, after you establish it.

[Anonymous No.3612796]

>>3610349
>Heim theory

I read that it's essentially pseudoscience and unrealistic.