Is Warp Drive around the corner

BlueFox
BlueFox Posts: 15,251
edited March 2014 in The Clubhouse
How does that Chinese saying go; May you live in exciting times. Or something to that effect.

Anyway, in regard to physics we are living in exciting times. The discovery of possible evidence showing the very instant the universe was created might result in some amazing applications after we understand it.

Who knows. We might even be able to explain why some cables work much, much better than other cables.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/29/opinion/urry-big-bang-findings/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,465
    edited March 2014
    They can't even find a 777 on our own planet, yet they can find the center of the universe... go figure.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,995
    edited March 2014
    the saying is (ostensibly) "May you live in interesting times" - and it is said not to be a blessing, but rather a curse.

    EDIT: Holy Schnizzle -- Meg Urry (who wrote the CNN story at the link) was my Physics TA in college. It is an amazingly small universe!
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2014
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    They can't even find a 777 on our own planet, yet they can find the center of the universe... go figure.

    More people have been looking longer for this than for the airplane. It took two years to find the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic a few years ago.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,138
    edited March 2014
    You got a lot of faith if you trust in the big bang.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2014
    Conradicles wrote: »
    You got a lot of faith if you trust in the big bang.

    I am sure as time goes by the theory will be refined and revised as we learn more, but, as of now, all the science is pointing to its accuracy. This is why we live in interesting times.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,465
    edited March 2014
    BlueFox wrote: »
    More people have been looking longer for this than for the airplane. It took two years to find the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic a few years ago.



    True, but that airplane is here on this earth(according to some theories anyway) and in the grand scheme of things, infinitely larger and easier to find that the center of the universe.
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,277
    edited March 2014
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    True, but that airplane is here on this earth(according to some theories anyway)

    :mrgreen:
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2014
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    They can't even find a 777 on our own planet, yet they can find the center of the universe... go figure.
    People have been openly working on astrology for hundreds of years now, before that, anyone who dared say that we weren't the center of the universe was burned to the stake. Let's apply that same amount of time to finding this small plane, I'm sure it'll eventually come up. Besides, it's really not very difficult to hide an aircraft, even one of that size. It could very well be sitting in a hangar somewhere out of view. Even a aircraft plant was kept hidden for years: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/12/how-military-hid-lockheed-burbank.html
    Conradicles wrote: »
    You got a lot of faith if you trust in the big bang.
    Is there evidence of anything else?
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2014
    Face wrote: »
    People have been openly working on astrology for hundreds of years now, before that, anyone who dared say that we weren't the center of the universe was burned to the stake.

    Astrology, or astronomy? :lol:
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,014
    edited March 2014
    140110105701-faraway-galaxies-horizontal-gallery.jpg


    I can dig it, pick a galaxy and lets go there. Gonna have to sooner or later. Maybe they have girls with 3 **** who don't like jewelry stores. I'm game...
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited March 2014
    All of those galaxies and we can't even get around in our own :(

    to even get to the next closes sun in our own we have to hitch a ride!

    but I got my "Hitchhikers guide" and I'm ready to go :)
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited March 2014
    I happened to work with Sonny White (on a different program) who is currently working on the Warp drive development:
    http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164326-nasa-discusses-its-warp-drive-research-prepares-to-create-a-warp-bubble-in-the-lab

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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2014
    If you think about it, what would become the matter in our bodies touched EVERYTHING in the universe back then. We're kind of "timeless" even though we only live for 80-100 lousy years! lol

    Inflation, where the universe does what it wants, mocking time and absolute light speed because it can! And just imagine how WEIRD the beginning might have been where all LAWS break down or are absolutely USELESS! Hubris! Never a good thing in ANY discipline, Horatio!

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,995
    edited March 2014
    we are stardust,
    -- billion year old carbon --
    we are golden
    -- caught in the Devil's bargain --
    and we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden...

    - Joni Mitchell
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  • Tornado Red
    Tornado Red Posts: 939
    edited March 2014
    I've seen some of the polk forum members audio equipment on here....I wouldn't mind beaming some of it to my house. Would that be considered ingenious or theft?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,995
    edited March 2014
    ... and that's why I don't have a phone with GPS in the house ;-)
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  • Jhayman
    Jhayman Posts: 1,548
    edited March 2014
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    They can't even find a 777 on our own planet, yet they can find the center of the universe... go figure.

    Nice one John...ROFL
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  • Tornado Red
    Tornado Red Posts: 939
    edited March 2014
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ... and that's why I don't have a phone with GPS in the house ;-)


    ...here's a man light years ahead of his time.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,995
    edited March 2014
    parsecs, even...

    ;-)
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  • Tornado Red
    Tornado Red Posts: 939
    edited March 2014
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    parsecs, even...

    ;-)

    You think too much like me...kinda warped....
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