[IceyJones]

habitable planets around alpha centauri possible:
Follow the link to the press-release

[Hellstryker]

No, it wont, because unless we funnel billions of dollars into hyper drive tech and or sleeper ship tech we won't even get there

[Ashrak]

why arent we funneling billions of money units into hyperdrive tech?

[Wobble73]

Because first we have to decide on a destination before we decide how we are to get there!

[Admiral_Stones]

Say what you want, in RL, FTL Travel is impossible.

[Wobble73]

Say what you want, in RL, FTL Travel is impossible.

Not necessarily, we might not be able to break the laws of physics, but we might be able to bend them a little!

[Admiral_Stones]

NO.

Physical Laws are un-break-able and un-bend-able. They CAN NOT be modified.

[Wanderer]

Say what you want, in RL, FTL Travel is impossible.

FTL travel is AFAIK not impossible by current understanding of the physics or the universe...

...only snag is that accelerating to lightspeed is.

[Flipside]

NO.

Physical Laws are un-break-able and un-bend-able. They CAN NOT be modified.

Until, of course, someone comes along and defines a new set of laws, or builds an extension onto the old ones, much as Einstein did with Newtons' work.

[MP-Ryan]

NO.

Physical Laws are un-break-able and un-bend-able. They CAN NOT be modified.

Until, of course, someone comes along and defines a new set of laws, or builds an extension onto the old ones, much as Einstein did with Newtons' work.

Quantum theory and research into wormholes is already doing this.

[Herra Tohtori]

You need to make a distinction between laws of physics and laws of nature. The difference is that laws of physics are man-made approximations of nature's workings and are subject to change as new information is discovered - and nature is not bound to abide by them.

The laws of nature are what laws of physics try to be, but likely will never completely succeed.


Right now it very strongly seems that it is impossible for an object with rest mass (m0 > 0) to accelerate to c, based on the kinetic energies (and half times, or life times if you will) of particles moving at high relative velocities, but that's not a guarantee that there wouldn't be a way to move things from A to B faster than light travels from A to B. Usually proposed options include making the way between A and B shorter (warp drive, which actually has somewhat of a sound theoretical basis already, the problem is manipulating space-time continuum...), or creating a shorter alternative route between A and B (wormhole, or Einstein-Rosen bridge).

Of course, there's always a possibility that some kind of subspace, B5-hyperspace or Star Wars hyperspace are discovered. Not necessarily in that form, but if the multiverse-theory is correct, it wouldn't be too surprising to find out a way to interact between universes.


Especially seeing how latest experiments seem to suggest that interaction between universes happens on a routine basis and all the time on, say, particle interference...

If such basic optical phenomena as interference practically depend on inter-universal quantum interaction, who knows what kinds of technology it will eventually spawn...

[Shade]

Physical Laws are un-break-able and un-bend-able. They CAN NOT be modified.

Not quite true. It's the laws of nature that are unbreakable and unbendable. The laws of physics are just our current best guess at how the laws of nature work, and as such may be incomplete or plain wrong in important areas.

[Edit] Bah, beaten by 12 seconds. And he wrote a whole dissertation too. I fail

[IceyJones]

my intension was really not to start a discussion about the physics and space travel in general. i just wanted to show, that there might be habitable planets around our nearest star system.....nothing more

[Jeff Vader]

Ah, but there's nothing fun about inhabitable planets if we can't get to them. Therefore, discussion about space travel and physics is inevitable.

[Janos]

babylon 5 will not become reality because amigas are gone and we don't have 90s haircuts any more.

[Jeff Vader]

we don't have 90s haircuts any more.

That can be arranged.

[Janos]

we don't have 90s haircuts any more.

That can be arranged.

keep your filthy fingers off my afro bro *is drafted, goes to nam, is killed*

[Jeff Vader]

*is drafted, goes to nam, is killed*

Life is.

[IceFire]

Say what you want, in RL, FTL Travel is impossible.

Not impossible...just extremely difficult to the extreme.  Some mathematicians and physicists calculated out what it would take to warp space time and jump from one location to another.  Its doable...just needs allot of power.  Lots of physicists mention that FTL is not impossible and that there are short cuts around accelerating up to light speed but the difficulties in making something like that work require far more than we're technologically capable of envisioning in quite a while yet.

[Polpolion]

NO.

Physical Laws are un-break-able and un-bend-able. They CAN NOT be modified.

Yeah, this is what they said with the airplane, too.