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| proposed warp drive engine. |
| 2008-08-04 |
| If the 11th dimension could be shrunk behind the ship it would create a bubble of dark energy, the same dark energy that is causing the universe to speed up as time goes on. Expanding the 11th dimension in front of the ship would eventually cause it to decrease, although two separate steps are required. Exactly how the 11th dimension would be expanded and shrunk is still unknown. "These calculations are based on some arbitrary advance in technology or some alien technology that would let us manipulate the extra dimension," said Cleaver. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #6 GUAM-WESTPAC's got the [Proto = "Baby"?] WORMHOLES > just gotta learn to make 'em bigger and above all controlled vv time-space = warp travel. ABANDONED CHARDASSIAN SPACE STATION WANTED FOR RENT - SOLID SAVE FOR A FEW MILYUHN MINOR KLINGON PHASER AND PHOTON TORPEDO DENTS. GREEN ORION SLAVE BABES INCLUDED AS STAFF. Contact INTERSTELLAR REALTY, NEW NEW YORK. SOLYENT BIG MACS + SOLYENT PIZZAS NOT PREFERRED. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-04 22:41 |
| #5 I'm still struggling with 4 dimensions. Damn gravity and the ravages of time. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-08-04 20:31 |
| #4 Cosmic Rays are the engine signatures of these vehicles! ;) |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-08-04 20:25 |
| #3 There are two ways to approach a concept like this. The first that most people think of is "God from a machine" (Deus ex machina), a "faster than light spaceship". But it is generally more practical to be "Using the machine of God" (Usura apparata Deus). Think aircraft and the jet stream. Flying against the jet stream using engine power at full thrust, you will get to where you are going, even if it takes ten times as long; but if you are flying with the jet stream, you use minimal engine power, because the air current does most of the work. At this very moment, each of us are hurtling around the universe at high speed, in all sorts of different vectors. If we could just stop moving, in a short period of time we would be millions of miles away from where our relative position in space had traveled. If you could just cancel, neutralize, one or more of these vectors, you might be able to have the universe, or the galaxy, move around you as you stand still. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-08-04 17:32 |
| #2 Oh great, research possibilities, just what the human race has been waiting for. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-04 16:56 |
| #1 Warp speed, Mr. Sulu! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-08-04 16:36 |