Is FTL Travel Possible with a Mini Cooper in an Alternate Space Network?

[ThothOfAtlantis]

graviton density

ok perhaps the gravitons may travel at some super small extra number than _c making them appear to have light speed but this is neglecting what i call "graviton wave density". under my theory the warping factor of space is proportional to the "graviton wave density", meaning that for small graviton densities there is a slight alteration in space-time but for ultra high gwd's there is a severe warping of space-time which allows the wave to travel at som large multiple of _c

 

[AWolf]

Warped Space

There is one major drawback with the concept of warping space. I'm not sure whether this has been noted before.
By warping space you greatly reduce the distance between two points, for example our planet and a very large star somewhere distant.
The reduction is distance (if it could be acheived) would allow travel over long distances in relatively short periods of time.
What is true in one direction would also be true in the other.
Any large gravitational fields in the vacinity of the end of the warp or along its path would now also effect our planet. The resulting change in gravitational forces could have devistating effects.

 

[franznietzsche]

Originally posted by ThothOfAtlantis
ok if you say that gravity (gravitons) travel at _c then they must travel at some slower speed while in motion due to their gravitational effect of space-time, but since _c is the top velocity for light which has no mass then that means gravitons must then trvel at the same limit. here's the thing if gravitons are the messenger particles of gravity then they must by nature warp space as well thereby overtaking the speed of light even if the warp factor is
(1+10^-100000000000000000000000000000000) this would according to my equations (of which i am fairly confident are correct ) would go beyond light by an incredibly small amount but absolutely faster than light speed

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13827

not sure how you got that conclusion, but no. If a graviton travels at c then its propagation travels at c. I think you are thinking too much of a graviton as a particle, think of it as a wave, a fluctuaion in the gravitational field. That is the graviton is not separate from the propagating disturbance in space time, it is the propagating disturbance in spacetime.

In the same way light can be viewed not as a particle separate from the electromagnetic field, but as a propagating fluctuation in the electromagnetic field.

 

[ThothOfAtlantis]

string theory

according to string theory all particles including messenger particles which are made up of vibrating strings which have a definite size and therefore cannot be purely a wave. we can apply this to gluons, photons and gravitons to say that they have a size whereas waves do not

or something to that effect