Warp drive within our lifetime

[Anonymous No.5394996]

>How NASA might build its very first warp drive "My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along," he recalled. "I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible." White had adjusted the shape of Alcubierre's ring which surrounded the spheroid from something that was a flat halo to something that was thicker and curvier.
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive

>Warp Field Mechanics 101
>Dr. Harold “Sonny” White
>NASA Johnson Space Center
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936_2011016932.pdf

[Anonymous No.5395058]

I'm a very skeptical person, but space travel makes me wet as a river.

So I'm very hopeful a breakthrough with this comes out.
How awesome would it be to be apart of a colony to another system in your lifetime?

[Anonymous No.5395060]

strange matter, where?

[Anonymous No.5395067]

>>5395060
let me rephrase that...
exotic matter, where?

[Anonymous No.5395112]

>Do the math on this shit
>Build a probe, launch it into orbit
>Activate the warp drive
>It's fucking gone man

How will it have the precision required, and how will it "stop"?

[Anonymous No.5395125]

>>5395112
>collect strange matter for hundreds of years
>build warp
>watch the aircraft disappear and never find out what happened

imagine the butthurt

[Anonymous No.5395127]

>>5395112

>Point it at alpha centauri
>give it enough power to go about 4 light years
>wait a few years for a signal
>profit

[Anonymous No.5395132]

>>5395127
>send probe
>look how it pierces the star

[Anonymous No.5395133]

>>5395127
>4.3 years to just receive the info that the probe arrived
>4.3 years to send info to start collecting info
>4.3 years to receive the info collected

I would go. I don't give a fuck if I die.

[Anonymous No.5395136]

Did anyone even look at the PDF? That shit is clearly manufactured.

[Anonymous No.5395147]

>>5395133
We'll have to wait only for first 4 years. Then we'll send more warp driven probes to order the first one how to operate

[Anonymous No.5395148]

>>5395127

How about.....
>send it to alpha centauri
>take pictures of planet at alpha centauri
>take video of warp drive from inside the craft

and then

>fly straight back to earth with results

Done.

[Anonymous No.5395160]

>>5395148
>>send it to alpha centauri
>>take pictures of planet at alpha centauri
>>take video of warp drive from inside the craft

>and then

probe splits into 2 parts
>part with warp drive fly straight back to earth with results
>part with cameras and data collection equipment stays behind to collect more data and send it back to us for years to come

[Anonymous No.5395175]

The probe is not biological idiot! It can't just procreate and "split" into two

[Anonymous No.5395177]

>>5395125
Strange matter isn't strange enough. You need negative matter, matter with negative energy density.

[Anonymous No.5395184]

>>5395175
We'll have to send monkeys then... a pair of monkeys that can procreate and pilot the probes. And the probe that gets left behind they can live on so their children and children children can pilot the probe for generations to come.

[Anonymous No.5395185]

The article title is bunk, what is being constructed is not a warp drive. The problem still remains that there is no negative matter. No one can say if that will happen in your lifetime because no one knows if it exists.

[Anonymous No.5395906]

MFW reading this thread

[Anonymous No.5395910]

>>5395906
Pic related

[Anonymous No.5395912]

>>5395906
oh shit negative matter exists

[Anonymous No.5395914]

>>5395912
>>5395910
aww you ruined it.

[Anonymous No.5395916]

>>5395910
and I thought you were funny for a moment

[Anonymous No.5395957]

Space travel sucks.

We should be working on teleportation first, which *should* work the same regardless of distance, then just put teleporters in our space craft, so we only need to fly somewhere once. We wouldn't need to worry about fuel capacity either if we could just keep teleporting more onto the ship, which would be a lot lighter without a crew, life-support or any of that other crap.

That is, if we couldn't just teleport straight to another location without some kind of receiver.

[Anonymous No.5395975]

>>5395112
>its fucking gone man

fucking lol'd

[Anonymous No.5395995]

>Harold White designing the FTL drive

>Harold White, faster than light

come on guys, with a name like that you know it's fucking destiny so it's going to happen in his lifetime.

[Anonymous No.5396001]

Sorry, I had my hopes up too but this design requires exotic matter. fairy dust

[Anonymous No.5396007]

>>5396001
>dat shitty attitude

[Anonymous No.5396024]

>>5396001
While there alternatives to using exotic matter, it's only a matter of time before we are able to produce it. Simply because we don't have the technology to produce something now doesn't mean we won't in the future.

A few decades ago we didn't even know antimatter existed, but now we are producing antimatter for experiments. There is going tio come a time when we find a way to manufacture large quantities of antimatter, but just because we can't do it yet doesn't mean we will never be able to do it.

[Anonymous No.5396036]

>>5396001

Could the effects of exotic matter be replicated through other technological means, such as anti-gravity technology?

[Anonymous No.5396059]

>>5396036

>>5396024


http://lss.fnal.gov/archive/1985/pub/Pub-85-136-A.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9811323.pdf

you don't need ''exotic matter''
exotic matter is simply the answer when looking at the problem from solely standard model view, while the standard model clearly isn't enough in terms of quantum mechanics and gutantum gravity

[Anonymous No.5396061]

>>5396036
I dunno, ask black mesa

[Anonymous No.5396071]

>>5396036

>anti-gravity technology

If we had anti gravity technology, i suspect we wouldn't need exotic matter.
Either that, or we'd need exotic matter to develop anti gravity in the first place

[Anonymous No.5396083]

>>5396071

I cant find the article, but I recall something about rotating super conductors doing something with gravity, though it was still relatively weak.

[Anonymous No.5396085]

>>5396071
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/GSP/Towards_a_new_test_of_general_relativity

[Anonymous No.5396105]

>>5396071
>>5396083

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

Learn, children.

[Anonymous No.5396114]

>>5396083
I believe this was the technology behind the nazi bell experiments, as well as the American flying triangle.