Post edited at 2:07 pm on Dec. 26, 2008 by HeartofJuyoMk2

Alcubierre Warp Drive.

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Yes. Theoretically.

Alcubierre Warp Drive.

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Well, it sounds like a very generally possible thing, but the concept of what we would need to actually do to cause that is really difficult to imagine. It'd require some so-far unheard of technology,

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Quote: from evil bamboo at 5:12 pm on Dec. 26, 2008

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Well, it sounds like a very generally possible thing, but the concept of what we would need to actually do to cause that is really difficult to imagine. It'd require some so-far unheard of technology,

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the beauty of technology. it's always breaking preconceptions.

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More than a preconception. It'd be a revolution in physics, since It'd be taking advantage of something only very rarely witnessed in physics, namely action at a distance. It occurs naturally in quantum effects, but Humans have never really done crazy physics things themselves.

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Bullshit. I do crazy physics things myself all the time. Yeah.

If you're gonna define "faster than light" as any transfer from one point to another point faster than light could travel that constant distance, I would say the most interesting possibility would be through quantum entanglement or whatever. I can't remember the specifics, but the information is transferred virtually instantaneously -- the "information" being a change in one particle when its "partner" is measured miles and miles away. If you could be "coded" like a computer file, perhaps this technology could "print" you out at another location. It'd be teleportation, essentially.

And to any who say you wouldn't be yourself, I beg to differ. All your emotions and memories and whims and sins and annoying personality traits are based in arrangements of your matter -- mostly your gray matter.

Nevertheless, the amount of sheer power required for such transport (either method) would be something akin to the energy output of multiple Suns.

I however, do not believe these theories to be impossible or even implausible - given enough time of course (at least 150 years).  

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