Warp Speed Possible? Risks, and so on and so Forth

[Keith Justice]

Not really. Nothing in physics known so far would imply that. Going the speed of light would be disasterous if it was even remotely possible (see: infinite energy required).

Further, how many dimensions do we need? We got 11 we live in, according to modern physics. And according to quantum physics, an infinite amount of other universes out there.

Way Star Trek does it is warping time and space around them so that they kind of step outside the laws and fire ahead almost as fast as they want. They create a bubble where they don't have to worry about mass gain or other hindrances of space time.

Key to FTL travel is to figure out how to bipass the laws around the traveler... not see how destructive they can be within those laws.

 

[Keith Justice]

Folding Space and jumping through dimensions is a more feasable way of travel than any form of faster than light motion. As it is, I know quite a few people who postulate that God and the Angels are in fact superdimensional beings who use that very method to observe and regulate the very reality they created

A real God creates the laws of pretty much everything. It wouldn't need to use dimensions, rifts or whateve.

And artificial "god" and his extra dimensional "angels" could be real.. that'd be fun. But it's just be a super being... not THE God.

 

[Chronotia Archzenom]

Way Star Trek does it is warping time and space around them so that they kind of step outside the laws and fire ahead almost as fast as they want. They create a bubble where they don't have to worry about mass gain or other hindrances of space time.

Key to FTL travel is to figure out how to bipass the laws around the traveler... not see how destructive they can be within those laws.

A real God creates the laws of pretty much everything. It wouldn't need to use dimensions, rifts or whateve.

And artificial "god" and his extra dimensional "angels" could be real.. that'd be fun. But it's just be a super being... not THE God.

AMEN.

 

[StriderXXX]

i bet XENU uses warp speed to visit Tom Cruise...

 

[Tanuki]

Creating the laws of the universe doesn't mean that he shouldn't work inside of them. After all, the 7 plagues on egypt and the parting of the Red Sea have been linked to the erruption of a volcano further up the ...nile? And the fire that consumed Elijah's sacrifical alter has been proven to the a controlled nuclear reaction thanks to the black glass found on the scene (those only happen at the scene of atomic blasts). God has amazing powers, but he still can work in the context of what he has created and by existing extradimensionally, he doesn't HAVE to constrain himself to the laws of this universe

 

[Transfotaku]

Way Star Trek does it is warping time and space around them so that they kind of step outside the laws and fire ahead almost as fast as they want. They create a bubble where they don't have to worry about mass gain or other hindrances of space time.

Key to FTL travel is to figure out how to bipass the laws around the traveler... not see how destructive they can be within those laws.

Indeed. Space and time are intrinsically linked (hence the proper term is Space-Time, and not space or time), so warping both simultaneously would be the way to do it, without jumping dimensions, universes, or folding space.

Their 'warp bubble' is effectively like a surfboarder. They create a sort of 'wave' in Time-Space, and ride the crest of that wave. In theory it's a more logical way to do it than powering your own ship to do the FTL speed all on its own. It's not bending the laws of the universe if you use the universe to empower you.

Trying to accelerate your own ship to speed of light? Disasterous.
Having space-time warped and push you forward on a wave? That gets you someplace new and fun every week then!

 

[Tanuki]

That does sound feasable. Though I can't help but wonder at the long term effects of repeatedly warping space time

 

[Transfotaku]

That does sound feasable. Though I can't help but wonder at the long term effects of repeatedly warping space time

Obviously, it's talking in all theory, but...

Probably nothing. Space-Time seems to be naturally elastic. After all, look at gravity and gravity wells when dealing with objects of signifigant mass, like stars and planets. And space-time keeps expanding on and on and growing rapidly.

Think of it like a blanket, stretched between two chairs. Put some golf balls or even coins on that blanket. Those 'divets' are effectively stars and planets, and make gravity wells. Now take the blanket and fold from one point to another. Then unfold it. Space-Time should probably act like the blanket.

The warp drive that takes space from before it and pushes it behind it though, that doesn't really effect space-time. Think of it like a ramjet for airplanes. A ramjet sucks in the air before it, and forces it out behind it. That's effectively how a Star Trek warp seems to work.

And this isn't even getting into Dark Matter or Dark Energy, which together, comprises about 96% of our entire universe. Yes, actual matter like you and I and all the stars and planets? Only about 4% of the universe...