I have no idea as to when it would happen, so it'd be pointless for me to really make a choice, but I'll just do it since that's the only way I can see choices. I'll choose C. Anyways, I've done this in the past, but I'd like to post this link for those that are interested in theories from scientist and what not, of what our future may be.
This, light is fast as fuck guys. Although we do have stuff like this.
L.A. to N.Y. in 12 minutes I believe. And that's what the government tells us about. I'm not some conspiracy theorist either. But it's a fact that we don't find out about the futuristic tech until it's been out/used for a while, they won't tell us what they have as soon as it's made. The bombers during Vietnam are an example of that, iirc.
let me consult my history of the future textbook. lets see....... lotto numbers, no..... sports team victories, no......... ahh here it is faster than light travel. Discovered in 1987 by a Mr. Gerstmann and used to get some mars burgers. Promptly forgotten about forever afterwords.
I have no idea as to when it would happen, so it'd be pointless for me to really make a choice, but I'll just do it since that's the only way I can see choices. I'll choose C. Anyways, I've done this in the past, but I'd like to post this link for those that are interested in theories from scientist and what not, of what our future may be.
We have to understand how to connect two points in space first (it's been explained to me like connecting two points on a paper by folding the paper in half). I'm gonna guess we do that in the 22nd century. Then we get the know how to manipulate points, then we have to build a machine that can do that. So I'm gonna say 24th century.
I have no idea as to when it would happen, so it'd be pointless for me to really make a choice, but I'll just do it since that's the only way I can see choices. I'll choose C. Anyways, I've done this in the past, but I'd like to post this link for those that are interested in theories from scientist and what not, of what our future may be.
For me D,E,F,G are are possible. I chose D because we might stumble on to something but other than that its either never or in a really really long time from now.
I think it would be naive to click "Never." Mainly because we have only been playing with this type of technology for a very small amount of time, how would we know?
I think we will be having a forum post (if there are forums) years from now about "Do you think we'll have [speed of even faster than FTL!]?"
Considering the speed at which new information is created and discovered, if it is possible, it couldn't be more than a few hundred years from discovery. Now, when can we actually build a large working prototype? I imagine that's quite a bit farther away.
Though who knows what we will have in the future. All it takes is one person to make one breakthrough and our whole future could be radically different.
This sort of depends on the context. We can already get individual particles to go faster than the speed of light. As for getting a human to go that speed? Never, even if they did manage to do it the person would never survive. Also the cost of doing it would probable rule it out.
Was the CERN thing officially debunked, or is it still up in the air?
Either way, I don't think it's a matter of going faster than light, but folding space.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you look at it) it was debunked. Most scientists working at CERN had serious reservations about announcing "FTL particles". Turns out it was a faulty cable that was throwing off their measurements. The guy who "announced" the discovery looks like a fool because he said that he "accounted" for every possibility, but no, he didn't account for a loose/faulty cable. He voluntarily left his job out of shame.
Probably never, as it would require us to decrease our mass to zero. The "probably" is there since we once thought the Earth was flat and the center of the universe not that long ago. Either way, it'll be interesting to watch how technology evolves over the coming years.
Perhaps near light speed, but with current physics going faster is impossible.
I've also heard that it is already theoretically possible (the math has been done) to create a worm hole to be traveled through. But the energy that would be required to send anything of significant size is so ridiculously high, like all the energy of a galaxy, that it is impossible.
What it all comes down to is a new fundamental understanding of physics, something radical. Because from what we understand about how things work now it will never happen.
But I am basically talking out of my ass, so who knows?
I am sure at some point space travel has a means to it that we're yet not entirely aware of. Some solutions only come after you've researched other solutions. Today we're looking at point-to-point holes and faster than light, but that doesn't mean there can't be other forms we're not entirely sure of yet. We're a bit too undeveloped to grasp concepts of such magnitude and too proud to think of ourselves as primates of technology. But I am certain we'll eventually be exploring the galaxy like it was business as usual. But definitely not anytime soon.
never since the speed of light cannot be broken what can be done is it can be cheated technically worm holes and other traveling methods aren't going faster then the speed of light but simply cheating there way through.
Isnt it impossible to move faster than the speed of light?
According to the current laws of science, yeah. But who knows what developments we'll have in 100 years time. I mean in 1895 if you asked a physicist they'd think that the idea of splitting the atom was absurd because atoms are indivisible, the clue is in the name after all. And yet less than 50 years later it had been done. Ditto with something like the age of the universe being 13.7 billion years, or the idea of light being carried by particles called photons or so many other elements of our understanding of physics. So yeah, it seems hugely unlikely, but there is a slim chance that we're missing some sort of fundamental thing in some area of physics that could enable FTL travel.
@Rohok said:
Anyone who believes we won't find a way to travel beyond our solar system is a quitter. Quitting is for pussies.
Well in fairness, travelling outside the Solar System is not the same as FTL travel. We could create stasis chambers which allow for travel over huge distance while slowing aging down to almost nothing or some other thing. You get the idea.
Not going to happen. It's physically impossible. That isn't to say that some other form of interplanetary travel might be developed or discovered such as folded space and jumpgates, but just pushin' the pedal to the metal and gunning it faster than the speed of light in a spaceship won't happen.
We'll never be able to travel faster than light, even a simple grasp of special relativity would show you so. Whether or not we will be able to manipulate the other supposed 7 spacial dimensions is another question entirely, and that is how we 'will' be able to cross large distances in a short amount of time, if we ever can.
Sorry, it's a just a big no. Any other guess is more optimistic than thinking we'll find a magical race of pixies who live in coffee cups and convert caffeine into anti-cancer diamonds.
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