13th July 2010, 10:50 AM
Bah if we were meant to visit the stars god would have made us with warp drives.
Darunia, the beginning of ignorance always starts with "I refuse to accept". Reality doesn't always match our expectations. Don't complain to me, complain to Einstein. He's the one that came up with the universal speed limit. I don't doubt we'll one day be able to land on distant worlds, but there's a sacrifice. Unless something fundamentally shakes up what we know about how space and time works (and I'm willing to accept that that could happen, but just sitting around hoping for it won't accomplish anything and is just delusional by itself) then we're stuck with the speed of light. Warp drive is, unfortunately, a pipe dream. Worm holes are better, but we've yet to observe anything of the sort and as of right now they're just a mathematical artifact of certain space time solutions. (The other aspect they don't talk about in the movies is worm holes are basically black holes from the outside. Falling into them would spaghetti you just as badly before you got shot out the other side.)
Darunia, the beginning of ignorance always starts with "I refuse to accept". Reality doesn't always match our expectations. Don't complain to me, complain to Einstein. He's the one that came up with the universal speed limit. I don't doubt we'll one day be able to land on distant worlds, but there's a sacrifice. Unless something fundamentally shakes up what we know about how space and time works (and I'm willing to accept that that could happen, but just sitting around hoping for it won't accomplish anything and is just delusional by itself) then we're stuck with the speed of light. Warp drive is, unfortunately, a pipe dream. Worm holes are better, but we've yet to observe anything of the sort and as of right now they're just a mathematical artifact of certain space time solutions. (The other aspect they don't talk about in the movies is worm holes are basically black holes from the outside. Falling into them would spaghetti you just as badly before you got shot out the other side.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)