Faster than light travel??? Star Trek soon to be a reality?

Is this the thing where they increase the speed of light to get around the limit?
 
[quote name='jmcc']Is this the thing where they increase the speed of light to get around the limit?[/QUOTE]

I don't think so. It's based on the principles of a German physicist named Heim. The math is pretty difficult but if you can wrap it around your head a bit, it's essentially creating a gravity well that will slingshot you to whatever you're going to in a short time. Imagine getting to Mars in the time it takes to get to Las Vegas from Los Angeles.
 
Nah, there it is: [quote name='The Article']"Dröscher is hazy about the details, but he suggests that a spacecraft fitted with a coil and ring could be propelled into a multidimensional hyperspace. Here the constants of nature could be different, and even the speed of light could be several times faster than we experience."[/quote]
 
Great. They will come up with all this cool shit ive dreamed of since a child and will probaly use it just as soon as i die.
 
Why does the idea of "slingshotting" make me think Farscape? As long as we're sending Ben Browder up there, all will be fine!
 
I'm more interested in NASA's concept of Warp
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html

This article is just magnitudes beyond crazy.
So is this all fanciful nonsense, or a revolution in the making? The majority of physicists have never heard of Heim theory, and most of those contacted by New Scientist said they couldn't make sense of Dröscher and Häuser's description of the theory behind their proposed experiment.
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[quote name='capitalist_mao']I'm more interested in NASA's concept of Warp
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html

This article is just magnitudes beyond crazy.[/QUOTE]
Heim wasn't a well known physicist after the 60s and 70s due to some debilitating injuries he sustained while working for the Nazi's, his seclusion, and he was never well liked because he didn't publish in mainstream science magazines, and didn't want to publish some things at all because of being ripped off in the past by another scientist.

Plus, all of his work was in German. Most people have never heard of him, but theres a group thats trying to make his work public, and trying to get it peer reviewed, to see how valid it is. Its hard since his notes are extremely complicated, and since they're in German, they're tough to translate accurately.

I don't know if his theories are worth much, but its worth looking into. It would be a shame if he was right, and ignored because he wasn't popular.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']Heim wasn't a well known physicist after the 60s and 70s due to some debilitating injuries he sustained while working for the Nazi's, his seclusion, and he was never well liked because he didn't publish in mainstream science magazines, and didn't want to publish some things at all because of being ripped off in the past by another scientist.

Plus, all of his work was in German. Most people have never heard of him, but theres a group thats trying to make his work public, and trying to get it peer reviewed, to see how valid it is. Its hard since his notes are extremely complicated, and since they're in German, they're tough to translate accurately.

I don't know if his theories are worth much, but its worth looking into. It would be a shame if he was right, and ignored because he wasn't popular.[/QUOTE]
Well, I would assume the thing to do is ask German Physicists to review his notes rather than translate and review the notes.

Besides that, I'm more concerned about the fact that most physicists are just baffled by it...
 
[quote name='capitalist_mao']Well, I would assume the thing to do is ask German Physicists to review his notes rather than translate and review the notes.

Besides that, I'm more concerned about the fact that most physicists are just baffled by it...[/QUOTE]
Another issue with that is the notation he used is, from what I understand, old fashioned, and very few people can read it, even Germans.

One of his less out there theories has been working out, how to predict the mass of a particle. A lot of people are on board with that.
 
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