Recent content by mnielsen1

So, any idea what this "exotic matter" is or might be? Whatever works?

Looking at PF i do see that, love the conversation

Amen

First you start loving physics and fall in love with space, then join the military, have a family, raise some kids and like me get back into exploring the cosmos and realize that the physics world is a bunch of kids having a pissing contest. Ever notice that? lol I am by no means...

My bad, I hadn't read the paper yet. I saw the special on "how the universe works" I think it was and then stumbled upon this forum as I was looking up the warp drive. I understand the idea about it. My son Aspen (4) and I are very much into space and time. For instance, we were in the doctor's...

Damn, dt=dt. Assuming we can pull this off, that is cool for us here at home. Sounds almost too good to be true...

Awesome! This tanker thanks you!

what's to stop the ship being trapped and ripped apart instead of riding the wave?

Anyone have an idea on the effects of Hawking radiation yet? Obviously we are not going to quit with this idea, but what are some possibilities for sheilding? Of course the ship can't be huge, the negative or exotic matter already has to be more than the universe?

Not just the infinite amount of fuel, of course I mean all the other limitations that special relativity would place on say Discovery traveling at or attempting light speed.

From what I unnderstood about it, the "bubble" that is created needs to be on while traveling at speed, this is what makes it possible to not have the infinite amount of fuel not to mention special relativity would take hold. The drive doesn't cancel or break relativity, it just works around it...

OK, so I have not read the whole paper, can't seem to access it so if anyone has it, please send it my way or at least a link too it. I understand the principles and with White coming out and proposing how to reduce the mass required I can see it being plausable, interesting at the least. Now...