• The Science Of THE ORVILLE: Quantum Drive | Season 1 | THE ORVILLE
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[quote]There are theoretical reasons to believe that there might be a form of matter that has what we call negative mass.[/quote] There are even better physical reasons to believe that such matter does not exist. One obvious one is we've never seen it or any hint that it should be out there. The worse one is that Alcubierre drives fuck causality beyond repair if you have more than one, or if they're allowed to turn around, or various other situations which we can expect would occur in any real circumstance. Using something with an actual theoretical basis in sci-fi with the knowledge that it probably wouldn't pan out in real life is fine, but I wish they'd stop trying to push it as though it's solid science and not just a fun unphysical solution to the Einstein equations to play with.
[del]shut up johnny[/del] thank you dr mo also the orville is worth a watch, please give it another season
[url]https://news.wsu.edu/2017/04/10/negative-mass-created-at-wsu/[/url] Didn't they already find a fluid with negative mass? Might be misunderstanding this.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;52775064][url]https://news.wsu.edu/2017/04/10/negative-mass-created-at-wsu/[/url] Didn't they already find a fluid with negative mass? Might be misunderstanding this.[/QUOTE] Quotes in the title are significant. They shot lasers at Bose-Einstein condensate and made it exhibit properties negative mass would have.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;52775064][url]https://news.wsu.edu/2017/04/10/negative-mass-created-at-wsu/[/url] Didn't they already find a fluid with negative mass? Might be misunderstanding this.[/QUOTE] Collective effects in matter can do practically anything, but they’re never really fundamental or interesting. You can’t make an alcubierre drive with them. It’s basically simulating the kind of system that is interesting. We’ve “discovered” magnetic monopoles like that too.
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