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is this ever going to work? I don't mean "plausible" or any sci fi fantasy optimism. For real, is this worth investing in?

>> No.7003513

Yeah, no. Not at all.

>> No.7003516

>>7003421
Since you're asking here you're pretty much either gonna be run down by a guy givving a succunt: "No cuz physics say it's impossible" and another throwing Sci-Fi Gimmiky shit at you.

You want to actually know more about this stuff you have a better chance on either wikipedia and googling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%E2%80%93Juday_warp-field_interferometer

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/04/casimir-effect-theoretically-could.html

And of course you could most likely get the most straightforward answer: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/socanwe.html

Other than that, if you're unwilling to work in the relevant scientific branch or even know basic material for the matter. You're basically wasting your time here.

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>> No.7003578

Yes, it is worth investing time in physics for warp drive. The new unified physics of the future will be able to handle more of Nature and the unsolved physics problems, so, yes, invest time and money, perhaps.

>> No.7003584

>hear about gravity bubble warp drive
>it pushes and pulls the ship
Still wondering why does it need to push AND pull the ship? Wouldn't just doing one of the things work?

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>>7003421
>>7003421
We've not really reached the level of scientific knowledge where we can reliably say something on the bleeding edge is or isn't possible with any real confidence.

We've turned the standard model of the universe on its head four times in the last hundred years... It was barely a decade ago we got to thinking that 90% of the universe was made up of some anti-gravitational force unlike any we'd ever seen or detected, based on a single new observation, and only a handful of decades before that, we thought it all ran on greased wheels of Aether.

Science, as we define it today, is really less than two centuries old. Everything we know might turn out to be wrong, and from past experience, both distant and recent, we know a great deal of it will be.

That said, the Alcubierre drive is probably wrong to, but you don't make new discoveries by not investing in proving hypotheses right or wrong, and there's nothing to say you won't find some other method, or something even more interesting, in the process.