Are we really alone? Life beyond the stars.....

[CptTrips]

Exactly - nothing can travel faster than light through space - but space itself easily expands faster than light.

Well then Duh!

We just need to learn to expand and contract space.  Then we get in a ship and contract a bubble of space in front of us and expand a bubble of space behind us both faster than the speed of light.  Zoom.  Off we go.  The bubble of space we are actually in just rides the wave but otherwise is unaffected.  Avoids all those nasty stretching effects of approaching the speed of light.  And since WE won't be traveling faster than the speed of light, just the space expanding/contract in front and behind us, we probably avoid the time dilation too.

Maybe this is how the LA7 works?

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Wab
 

[moot]

Martyn - Plazus' post read like its point was

Some people put too much faith in theories.

because they forget the total implications of

(until a better theory comes around)

instead only going by:

a theory is taken as 'the truth'

which is dogma. A theory, no matter how positively tried and tested, is never enough to allow more than the conclusion: This theory is consistent with that data.

We just need to learn to expand and contract space.  Then we get in a ship and contract a bubble of space in front of us and expand a bubble of space behind us both faster than the speed of light.  Zoom.  Off we go.  The bubble of space we are actually in just rides the wave but otherwise is unaffected.  Avoids all those nasty stretching effects of approaching the speed of light.  And since WE won't be traveling faster than the speed of light, just the space expanding/contract in front and behind us, we probably avoid the time dilation too.

Maybe this is how the LA7 works?

La7 with Alcubierre perk loadout

[CptTrips]

La7 with Alcubierre perk loadout

See.  That always happens to me.  I invent something except someone else invents it first.

Internet?  Yeah, me.  Damn you Al Gore!

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Wab

(OK moot,  I have a question you might could help me with but I'll put in another thread.)

[lengro]

We just need to learn to expand and contract space.  Then we get in a ship and contract a bubble of space in front of us and expand a bubble of space behind us both faster than the speed of light.  Zoom.  Off we go.  The bubble of space we are actually in just rides the wave but otherwise is unaffected.  Avoids all those nasty stretching effects of approaching the speed of light.  And since WE won't be traveling faster than the speed of light, just the space expanding/contract in front and behind us, we probably avoid the time dilation too.

Maybe this is how the LA7 works?

,
Wab
 

- yeah, or follow Wittens M-theory and jump through the multiverse of branes until you find a universe where the La's six is just in front of you.

Is that how the cable pullers do it?

[moot]

I have a question

Shoot.  No guarantees

- yeah, or follow Wittens M-theory and jump through the multiverse of branes until you find a universe where the La's six is just in front of you.

Is that how the cable pullers do it?

[dedalos]

BTW, when you guys figure out how to travel at those speeds, you better invent some kind of very long long long range radar to detect particles in your way or be able to clear a path pretty good, or a collision with some dust particles could cause a little problem 

[moot]

We'll just yank the joystick really hard.

[dedalos]

We'll just yank the joystick really hard.

No workie.  Your signal from the stick will be traveling slower than your flying disk.  Better find a new way of controlling it.  And that flip communicator will only be able to send messages to the guys in the back of the disk.  If you are doing anything close to the speed of light, the response from the back may take years to reach the front.  If you are faster, you will never get the message that said the dylithium crystals where over heating 

As you can see, bending space is the better solution.  We should be able to do it in the next decade or two 

[moot]

Ahem

[CptTrips]

BTW, when you guys figure out how to travel at those speeds, you better invent some kind of very long long long range radar to detect particles in your way or be able to clear a path pretty good, or a collision with some dust particles could cause a little problem  

No way.  We're moving so fast we have quantum lag!

The dust particle would vaporize and we'd never get the collision packet. 

The particle would then get on God's BBS and raise Hell!

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Wab